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children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
city happening love prevent
We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe. Adger Ross
city ideas listen local officials proposals state willing work
We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet. John Payne
city creates expect friday kansas league noon orders practice problems saturday squeeze suggestion trying
The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.
city decree given king sat
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
city last people sat
the people who sat comfortably in this city last week. Artur Davis
city desperate eliminate homes hurricane less philosophy point protecting spend threat time trying
The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.
city growing rio success
We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.
city comedians politics
There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night. Mike Birbiglia
city community helping indiana lowest property recognized tax west
West Lafayette has been recognized as having the lowest city property tax and recognized for helping the Indiana community grow.
defeated expect marbles
We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.
defeated
Truth cannot be defeated. Edwin Louis Cole
defeated venison
Venison and venery defeated me. Benjamin Franklin
defeated great victors wars
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. George William Russell
defeated money
We were defeated by money and the mayor.
defeated germany given partly people serve successful
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism. Gustav Stresemann
defeated girls perennial state teach tough trying
Westboro is a tough team, they defeated Medway, who are perennial state champs, already this season, ... What I am trying to do here is teach these girls the basics.
defeated minister prime sitting
Netanyahu has already defeated a sitting prime minister (Peres in 1996), and he can do it again.
defeated half life second time
There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life. Kim Cattrall
failing
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand! David Mitchell
failing exception
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive. Calamity Jane
failing managers ifs
If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Mark Cuban
failing excellent projects
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up. Eddie Izzard
failing
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. Diego Klattenhoff
failing cigarette score
Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. Earl Weaver
failing models rely
A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail. Charlie Munger
failing preparing-to-fail preparing
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
failing danger
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing. Ben Bernanke
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
inspire church causes
The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour Charles Spurgeon
inspired
I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that. David Krumholtz
inspire want world
I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.
inspire becoming inquiry
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. Edward Jenner
inspire secret world
My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website. Benedict Cumberbatch
inspire have-faith faith-in-yourself
Have faith in yourself and in the future. Edward Kennedy
inspire aviation should
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. Bertrand Piccard
inspire desire conquer
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze. Charles Baudelaire
inspire comedy surprise
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe. Billy Zane
nobel promoted suddenly
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status. Luis Federico Leloir
nobel science
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
nobel nobel-prize hospitals
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. Doris Lessing
nobel scientist thank wish
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire. Sheldon Lee Glashow
nobel
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's. P. J. O'Rourke
nobel physiology prize punches
Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose. Tim Hunt
nobel prize deserve
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. Joe Klein
nobel nobel-peace-prize prize
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! Omar Bongo
nobel nominated peace
He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Kenneth Starr
resident
Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises. David Hewson
resident waiting
You never see a resident waiting for an escort.
resident
The resident kvetch of 60 Minutes. an unabashed fogy. Sue Halpern
unions communism china
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad. Bill Ayers
unions degrees different
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. Brian Herbert
unions students active
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
union
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this. Lech Walesa
unions soviet-union capability
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. Alexander Haig
unions sake chance
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. Aleister Crowley
unions facts quitting
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible Arthur Schopenhauer
unions unjust would-be
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare. Albert Camus
unions classic blokes
Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza. Clive James
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.