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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
oysters together poverty
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
oysters said happens
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. Edward Lear
oysters said conditions
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
oysters risk louisiana
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. Bobby Jindal
oysters found used
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. Barbara Walters
oysters world mines
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. William Shakespeare
oysters world cracks
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress Arthur Miller
oysters people trouble
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead. Agatha Christie
oysters creative trying
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. Carol Ann Duffy
what-if stories highlander
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it? Diana Gabaldon
what-if dying matter
You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying. Cheryl Strayed
what-if wild-girl ifs
What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
what-if go-back-in-time if-i-could
But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?
what-if done made
What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
what-if enemy ifs
They say, Keep your enemies closer. But what if you live with them? Bob Saget
what-if tests juliet
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? Brendan Fraser
what-if body stills
It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then? Augusten Burroughs
what-if hell knows
What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why! Adam Ferrara