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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
oysters together poverty
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
oysters said happens
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. Edward Lear
oysters said conditions
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
oysters risk louisiana
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. Bobby Jindal
oysters found used
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. Barbara Walters
oysters world mines
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. William Shakespeare
oysters world cracks
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress Arthur Miller
oysters people trouble
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead. Agatha Christie
oysters creative trying
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. Carol Ann Duffy
passing-by forget passings
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by. Elizabeth Bishop
passing-by numbers people
Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema. Andrei Tarkovsky
passing-by wind clouds
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. Christina Rossetti
passing-by design littles
As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time. Lauren Conrad
passing-by moments that-moment
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment. Paul Cezanne
passing-by broken leaving
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her. Kate Chopin
passing-by sky sun
Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by. Rich Mullins
passing-by glances passings
I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more. Sarah Dessen
passing-by able fool
If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not. Wilma Mankiller