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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. Charles Caleb Colton
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same. Charles Caleb Colton
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. Charles Dickens
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. Charles Dickens
black-and-white periods recreation
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. Alan Parker
black-and-white computer fascinated
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. Buffy Sainte-Marie
black-and-white color ideas
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually. David Hockney
black-and-white world sometimes
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. Benicio Del Toro
black-and-white discovery self
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. Barnett Newman
black-and-white way if-i-could
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. Edgar Degas
black-and-white men white-man
Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white. Bob Marley
black-and-white village landscape
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. David Amram
black-and-white records ugly
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. Brian Eno
government people should
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. Alan Moore
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. Alan Green
government favors corruption
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. Alan Greenspan
government purpose regulators
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. Alan Greenspan
government support political
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale. Alan Greenspan
government self credit
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief. Alan Greenspan
government giving needs
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. Al Sharpton
government america united-states
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
government opportunity work
We want the opportunity to work with the government on this. Andy Troszok