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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
glasses light broken
They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.
glasses society village
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. Charles Spurgeon
glasses bottles green
American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore. Alan Moore
glasses sides life-is
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. Alan Bennett
glasses faces chaos
Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. David Sedaris
glasses play giving
I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film." Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
glasses half-empty firsts
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place. Catherine Tate
glasses water looks
I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them. Mark Cuban
glasses safety inexperience
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. Charles Lindbergh
hits people south storm sure time
We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way. Joe Farmer
hit internet ourselves potential segment
We are positioning ourselves to hit every potential Internet segment out there. Dave Murray
hit hitting settling
We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us.
hit night open rhythm
We struggled. We had a lot of open looks, but it wasn't our night to hit them. We just never got in a rhythm from the three-point line. But once again, we try not to live by that. Michael Redd
hit stopped
We stopped at the stoplight and he just hit me.
hit proud slow sort
We started off slow offensively, but we made some adjustments. I'm really proud of the way we hit the ball. We didn't panic. Once we got going, it was sort of contagious.
hitting
We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.
hitting opened outside
We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.
hit wherever whether
Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water. David Hasselhoff
martini three
One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough. James Thurber
martini three
One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough
martinis races saying three wonder
There's an old saying about martinis ? one's not enough and three is too many. Races out here, one is not enough and you wonder if two is too many.
martini
A martini. Shaken, not stirred. Sean Connery
martini bigger feels
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me. William Faulkner
paying ripped
We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for. John Curry
paying people
People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.' Kevin McHale
paying-taxes taxes
I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else. Charles Payne
paying possible responsibility simply sure taxpayers
When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.
paying percent trouble
So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,
paying reading stuck
So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.
paying sad
We want this thing killed. This is a joke, and the sad thing is, we're paying for it. Doug Martin
paying ultimately
No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss. Kristin Armstrong
paying sheriff toward
We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services. Rick Savage
slides get-up ifs
The only rule I got is if you slide, get up. Bill Lee
slides joining honest
Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel... Elizabeth Wurtzel
slide top
I was on the top of the slide going down.
slides
I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad. Jessica Lange
slides daydreaming succession
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. Francis Bacon
slide until work
No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur.
slide until work
No work can be done until the slide stabilizes, and we don't know when that will occur.
slide wall
The slide breached the back wall of the house.
slide washington
Uncertainty in Washington has greased the slide downward.
toward wants
We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end. Ryan Getzlaf
toward
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. Katharine Graham
toward victims violent
I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. Clint Eastwood
toward
We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that. Maurice Cheeks
towards
We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence. Jane McGonigal
towards
I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own. Preity Zinta
toward
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked. Rand Paul
toward vast within
One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.
toward western
It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.