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wise wisdom juan
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. Carlos Castaneda
wise dark garden
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid. C. S. Lewis
wise fate brave
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Agnes Repplier
wise cavemen scratches
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Alan Kay
wise son night
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid. Charlotte Bronte
wise thinking likes-and-dislikes
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none
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 Charles Dickens
fighting honor beats
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that? Carol Moseley Braun
fighting
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. Carlos Fuentes
fighting years goes-on
Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.
fighting left people
We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that. John Hudson
fighting men joy
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature. Agnes Smedley
fighting would-be dull
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater. Alan Sillitoe
fighting space people
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. Alan Shepard
fighting gentleman ugly
I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.
fighting battle feminism
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
silence different kind
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
silence special duets
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way. Charlie Haden
silence argument weak
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. Charles Caleb Colton
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence
No one nor anything can silence me. Dmitri Mendeleev
silence needs stories
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. Diane Setterfield
silence
Silence, nothing is better. Diane von Furstenberg
silence trying remember
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things. David Shapiro