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agreeable authority experience faith french-philosopher means pleasant truths
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. Nicolas Malebranche
agreeable consists equally happiness peasant
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. Samuel Johnson
agreeable authorized comply favor prevent received refuse thankful written
Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with Thomas Jefferson
agreeable baby parents problems scheduling
Most parents are agreeable but some aren't because they don't have transportation or they have problems with scheduling baby sitters. Alan Hawkins
agreeable compromise decisive level reached venue
If a compromise can be reached for a mutually agreeable venue for talks, that will be decisive in the level of violence.
agreeable defect gradually hardly manner might personal reconcile
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to Jane Austen
agreeable best genuine political self
We need political solution, that the best way is genuine self rule. That I feel (is) mutually agreeable solution, Dalai Lama
agreeable certainly power receive
It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive Winston Churchill
agreeable child jungle life mind roaming searching thirst
Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. Duke Ellington
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.
dealing pains
'The Night Watch' is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are. Harry Treadaway
dealing dealt dollars
We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today, Charles Sumner
dealing drive helpful issues office people trying
We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.
dealing great somebody step
Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way. Nick Robinson
dealing ironic success
What we're really dealing with is the success of our city. It's ironic if you think about it.
dealing field happens help lives people ready separate stuff trying
What happens on the field is its own world. The stuff those people are dealing with is their lives in the real world. They're separate worlds. We're trying to do everything we can to help those people who have been displaced. Some of them are right here in Charlotte. But when it comes to football, we've got to be ready to play.
dealing point
We are getting over sicknesses and dealing with injuries. So at this point we know what we need to do.
distracted good job lose publicity start sure
When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing. Jose Theodore
distract issue management people shares uses whether
Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.
distracted greater jobs listened
We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.
distraction factions states
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction Aristotle
distracted early looking opposed recovery senate
There are early indications of a recovery if you're looking for them as opposed to being distracted by Senate hearings.
distracted everyday everywhere job learning puppies takes time
We take the puppies everywhere we go, ... Our job is to acclimate them to everyday life. A lot of it is learning not to be distracted by normal, everyday things. It takes time for them to learn that. Kathy Baker
distract early guys
We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things like that distract you.
distracted month people work
There is more than a month before the inauguration, and people mustn't get distracted from work by these thoughts,
distracted foreign impact number perception pervasive policy president
I think this has a pervasive impact on how he conducts foreign policy on a number of levels. There's a perception the president is distracted and in trouble. Marlin Fitzwater
lessons shapes pay
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. Al Jourgensen
lessons matter facts
No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it. Chris Colfer
lessons painful evolve
Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has. Cael Sanderson
less looking toward
We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment, Peter Ueberroth
less mean point push start sure year
We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season. Mike Scioscia
lessons used teach
I used to teach dance lessons. Eartha Kitt
lessons rewards hell
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going. Bear Grylls
lessons-to-be-learned alive process
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. Denis Waitley
lessons firsts given
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. Eliza Haywood
listening
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. Charles Stanley
listening wish newspapers
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Charles Spurgeon
listening actors want
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. Alan Rickman
listening important actors
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it. Alan Alda
listening way four
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. David Amram
listeners millions
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners. David Sedaris
listening i-can knows
I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know. Buddy Guy
listen
Why should you listen to any of us?
listening pay distraction
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
might goes-on wells
We might as well die as to go on living like this. Charlie Chaplin
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others!
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
people waiting thank-god
I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it. Charlie Daniels
people understand-me audience
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
people special architecture
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
people helping i-can
I am for people. I can't help it.
people dictator
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
people wicked-world wonderful
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
people rich assured
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich Charles Wagner
people want chance
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. Charles W. Pickering
people slavery congress
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.
successful crooks monarchs
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
successful people looks
If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful. Charles Dunstone
success people want
There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work. Charles E. Wilson
success achievement attention
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Charles Caleb Colton
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
wise strong humble
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts. Charles de Gaulle
wise wisdom thinking
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Charles de Lint
wise laughter people
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
wise words-of-wisdom godmother
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.