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wind roots tree
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
fire sweatshops would-be
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed. Carl Andre
fire ground line people saw toward
What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile. Lee Kreindler
fire name people
When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.
fire house lawyer
The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft." Alan King
fire simplicity world
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. Charles Dudley Warner
fire skins spirituality
Under the skin, intense fires burn. Charles de Lint
fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
fire liberty purpose
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
public-opinion found ministers
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
public-opinion judgment discerning
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. Elbert Hubbard
public-opinion doe audience
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience. Bono
public-opinion opinion sentiments
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Benjamin Disraeli
public-opinion influence interest
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. Albert Einstein
public-opinion useless sound
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. Albert J. Nock
public-opinion trends fads
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. David A. Bednar
public-opinion opinion indolence
What is public opinion? It is private indolence. Georg Brandes
public-opinion opinion worst
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. Nicolas Chamfort