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winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Caleb Colton
winter sea feet
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.
winter smell ghost-stories
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.
winter thinking important
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter Diane Setterfield
winter years benefits
Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. David Suzuki
winter green bowling
I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it. Jamie Sives
winter men thinking
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
winter fate bored
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom Charles Baudelaire
elderly groups urge
We still urge the elderly and other high-risk groups to be vaccinated. Dick Thompson
elderly ease pressure
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society. Cal Thomas
elderly way cases
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. Bill Nighy
elderly bae violence
I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese. Deborah Smith
elderly help home millions others pounds relatives save sick state stay value
What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined? Noreena Hertz
elderly man people point
She was to the point where she was having convulsions. They had elderly people not getting their (medicine). They had diabetics not getting their insulin. It was every man for himself. Michael Butler
elderly gout sometimes
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. Edmund Wilson
elderly would-be way
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. Arthur C. Clarke
elderly umpires ignorant
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Bertrand Russell
earth
Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me. C. S. Lewis
earth may mars
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept. Agnes Repplier
earth grow later sad squirrel squirrels time
When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad? Tove Jansson
earth extreme models physics provides test venus
Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.
earth lessons teach venus
Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.
earth hope launch ultimately
Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.
earth clubs exclusive
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. David Mitchell
earth social-network social
Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them. David Sze
earthquakes water fracking
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.