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ocean men hands
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! Charles Dickens
ocean rhythm shore
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
ocean men sea
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.
ocean arrows mountain
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean often-is evil
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
ocean moon men
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.
ocean rivers currents
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.
ocean sea waiting
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
ocean night men
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. Charles Stross
tales forgetful tedious
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
tales
Trust the tale, not the teller. David Knopfler
tales ends universe
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now. Chang-Rae Lee
tales
I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. David Gregory
tales
Every tale is not to be believed. Aesop
tales
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. Jane Levy
tales tact discretion
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. Gregory Peck
tales mice
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. Gelett Burgess
tales familiarity truest
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. Erin Morgenstern
brass figure leave tribal
We have to get down to the brass tacks. If this is going to move, we, as tribal leaders, have got to put a (settlement) figure in this bill. Right now, it's blank. We can't leave it blank. Tex Hall
brass connected military point saw serving soldiers
She connected with the military in a way I know they appreciate, not only the brass but the serving soldiers who saw someone who had made a point of getting to know them.
brass
Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?
brass
Let's get down to brass tacks here, man. How much for the ape? Benicio Toro
brass
Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring. Jason Calacanis
brass formed trombone
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. Trombone Shorty
brash home public quite
I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home. Tuppence Middleton
brash confident means reserved
I'm a little more reserved than (Smith) off the field. On the field, I get pretty animated. But he's a -- I don't want to say brash -- but a confident person, and he'll tell you if he doesn't like (something). And he means it. Jake Delhomme
brash culture
Moreover, our culture discourages her from being as brash as Gloria Arroyo, Joseph Estrada