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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Stross
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. Charles Spurgeon
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.
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. Charles Dickens
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
playing rock service thank
We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Neil Fallon
playing-music born
Ive been playing music since I was born. Chord Overstreet
playing stuck
We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it. Jenic Tumaneng
playing
When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it. Lucas Black
playing waving
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? Nigel Kennedy
playing region start
When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.
playing-music
And I like music, too, I like playing music. Beau Bridges
playing-outside geek scientist
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do. Antony Garrett Lisi
playing-music theory music-is
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. Derek Bailey
politics fervent
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists. Alan Bradley
politics heroines palin
[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine. Camille Paglia
politics welfare economy
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom. Caspar Weinberger
politics bureaucracy dies
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. Charley Reese
politics world speak
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth. Charles Krauthammer
politics servant civil-servants
I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. Billy Joel
politics requirements firsts
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. Dean Acheson
politics natural economy
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price. David Ricardo
politics firsts appearance
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. David Hume
reported signals
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives. Jean-Marie Lehn
reported tribe
One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.
reported treat true
Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people. Mark Fuhrman
reported saw
I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.
reported
It has been indicated that this was reported late.
reported tough
You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.
reported tip
We think that what is reported is just the tip of the iceberg.
reported year
There were more rapes reported this year than last. I know there's some speculation that there's just more reports. Well, I don't know that. I don't know that it's not actually going up. There's so much we don't know.
reported safe
One after the other, they reported everything was safe and sound. I was ecstatic.
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
sad death suicide
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
sadness night years
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.
sadness hands all-alone
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart
sadness mind want
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. Akhenaton
sad-person littles doe
I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly? Chris Colfer
sadness cleansing reassuring
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. David Rakoff
sadness tantrums
All sadness is a tantrum. Byron Katie