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common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common snooping policy
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. David R. Ellis
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common information investors legs quite support
Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time. John Segrich
common draught fair flavor genius grand mediocrity neutrality spoils weak
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. Oliver Wendell Holmes
common far female forms happen learn lessons races released second similarity students study uk walks
There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.
fashion grace virtue
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. Charles Caleb Colton
fashion vogue turns
Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
fashion past looks
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.
fashion sacrifice shade
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.
fashion admiration indifference
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
fashion party past
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.
fashion pride clothes
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
fashion utterance weak
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles Spurgeon
fashion people records
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. Al Jarreau
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
impossible possibility treats
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
impossible process fortune
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune. Alan Watts
impossible stills south
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region. Alan Ball
impossible worship loving-him
It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
impossible love reigns
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
impossible problem accustomed
Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible. Bill Johnson
impossible mediocre ifs
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music. Edith Piaf
impossible found hard
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.... August Wilson
impossible untrue seems
Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue, Deborah Harkness
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
maybe reason smile though understand waking
We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.
maybe people recovery
We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
maybe sure top
We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.
maybe-tomorrow office president
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. Ed Gillespie
maybe mike mitchell player productive replace somewhat talented though trying
We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.
maybe
We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.
maybe
We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.
maybe tough toughest
We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.
maybe
We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.
mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
models shifting
Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.
model notion
We have no preset notion of how the model will look.
model
We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.
models modeling session
I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions. Alexandra Kosteniuk
models taller
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen. Thierry Mugler
model
My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
model
I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.' Tao Okamoto
model regime
The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.
model people shows work
Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work. Mitchell Hurwitz
obviously question record
We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week. Howard Dean
obvious subtlety
Make subtlety obvious. Billy Wilder
obviously shifting
We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.
obvious-things comfort doe
The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument. Brian Eno
obviously people social thinking twitter
Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show. Eliza Taylor
obviously
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease. Eula Biss
obviously
The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy. Keyshawn Johnson
obviously
We won, so obviously I feel very good. Bruce Chen
obvious-things too-much obvious
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. Dennis Ritchie
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
runway models industry
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry. Heidi Klum
runway
Every runway is different, so I can't give black-and-white answers.
runway surface talk weather
The weather will be considered, and we'll talk to the crew. The surface of the runway is one of the things that we'll look at.
runway should models
Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be. Tracy Reese
states secretary
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever. Madeleine Albright
states evident secretary
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
states barometer interest
...interest is the barometer of the state... David Hume
states hyperbole constant
I live in a constant state of hyperbole. Eden Sher
states senators productive
I was very productive as a senator for my state. Carol Moseley Braun
state
We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.
state
to play in the state in which they're franchised. Paul Tagliabue
state
We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice. Susan Hill
state systems whether
When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.
walks corpses
You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed. Charles Baudelaire
walks i-can walking
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly! Bessie Coleman
walks
With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game. Frank Robinson
walks backwards
I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards. Abraham Lincoln
walks bike i-can
I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard. Brandon Boyd
walks persons knows
I don't know how to not become every person I walk by. Ben Harper
walks seeking-truth seeking
Walk with those seeking truth... Deepak Chopra
walks
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss. Banksy
walks
Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself. Alison McGhee
wearing-black obsessive-compulsive woven
I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.
wear
My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty. Nick Woodman
wearing-black bracelet instance
If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something. Diana DeGarmo
wearing
When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror. Carolina Herrera
wear women
I like women with style to wear my shoes. Manolo Blahnik
wearing
I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there. Laura Marano
wearing-black black colour
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black! Coco Chanel
wearing
She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly. Scott Peterson
wears younger
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. David Byrne