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sight cities serious-things
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure. Charlotte Bronte
sight world language
Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight... Charles de Lint
sight fey world
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. Charles de Lint
sight sea rolling
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. Charles Dickens
sight agreement eerie
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile. Bret Easton Ellis
sight people important
What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight. Dave Barry
sight walking-away broken
But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. Bryan Stevenson
sight two naked
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. Cesare Pavese
sight giving people
If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that. Jared Fogle
giving childhood intuition
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. Carlos Ghosn
giving-up doctrine unions
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best. Carlos Fuentes
giving crow warning
Crows are not always available to give warning. Carlos Castaneda
giving magic world
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. Carlos Castaneda
giving sculpture
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it. Carl Andre
giving forests week
and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. C. S. Lewis
giving comfort needs
Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all. C. S. Lewis
giving-up mind progress
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. Agnes Martin
giving elude foundation
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship. Agnes Repplier
soldier united-states proud
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. Buffalo Bill
soldier attention care
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did. Janis Karpinski
soldier firsts said
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. Chris Bohjalian
soldier revolution empty
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. Chiang Kai-shek
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo. Kurt Vonnegut
soldier working-together devil
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me. Brandon Sanderson
soldier able harness
The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage. Jane Fonda
soldier devil may
Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil. Cal Thomas
soldier conventions obsolete
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? Charles Schumer