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distance men world
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. Charles Caleb Colton
distance character order
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.
distance knees remember
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. Charles Stanley
distance lying night
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth. Charles Spurgeon
distance men law
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
distance home house
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.
distance reality love-is
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment. Alan Ball
distance joy mind
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance Akhenaton
distance book writing
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. Aiden Wilson Tozer
enables
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
enables team
Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful. Tim Ryan
enables national ventures viable
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. David Selby
enable essential great knife knives
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. Eric Ripert
enables taken
I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months. Leon Max
enables
Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression. Wendy Kopp
enables fine life means money useful
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless. Alan Moore
enables share
The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. Anita Borg
enable expand market producers
Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.
faces looks morrow
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it Charles Dickens
faces always-alone sad-face
I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon. Al Madrigal
faces gain meet opportunity rest season stage successful
We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience.
faces turns
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. Chris Cleave
faces helping praise
You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them. Chin-Ning Chu
faces fingers
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P! Dave Chappelle
faces way spit
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face. David Sedaris
faces problem disappear
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. Carlos Slim
faces never-forget forget
One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
nobody-knows
Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride. Carolina Herrera
nobody
We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does. Jim Calhoun
nobody state
We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.
nobody win
With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits. Bobby Cox
nobody
We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.
nobody season three wants
We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.
nobody
I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it. Romeo Miller
nobody olive quite
I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily. Rory Bremner
nobody process pulled
The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,
perhaps written
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
perhaps studied
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is. Azim Premji
perhaps
I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. Tad Williams
perhaps trial
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit. Trey Gowdy
perhaps
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
perhaps periods
When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.' Wentworth Miller
perhaps
We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.
perhaps
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all. Alexander McCall Smith
perhaps policy using
Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept. Oliver Kahn
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.