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ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Charles Dickens
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
ideas stink masters
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
ideas matter certain
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
stupidity would-be fraud
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. Charles Caleb Colton
stupidity mind demand
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. Alan Bradley
stupidity bed loud
I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot. David Sedaris
stupidity glorification
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. Carl Sagan
stupidity causes reputation
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. Kurt Vonnegut
stupidity profit made
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. David Ricardo
stupidity wickedness imbeciles
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. David Hume
stupidity opponents
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents. Barney Frank
stupidity latter workers
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. Bertolt Brecht
path covenant mercy
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.
path delay should
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path. Chogyam Trungpa
path detours something-better
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along. Darren Shan
path interest deeper
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. Caitlin Flanagan
path recovery seeing steady
We are seeing a steady recovery path in the electronics segment. Nobuyuki Oneda
path empowering-women painful
I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process. Diana Nyad
path world seems
The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path. C. S. Lewis
pathways crime corners
The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner. Chester Gould
path
We revel in the laxness of the path we take. Charles Baudelaire