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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.
omnipotence lord burden
Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord. Charles Spurgeon
omnipotence knowing not-knowing
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Alan Watts
omnipotence boredom succeed
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. Arthur C. Clarke
omnipotence giving capacity
You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. C. S. Lewis
omnipotence cities people
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri
omnipotence judging holiness
It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared. David Jeremiah
omnipotence cosmic ifs
If you have a religion it must be cosmic.
omnipotence perfection justice
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. Joseph Addison
omnipotence virtue
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. J. William Fulbright
contradiction checks premises
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises. Ayn Rand
contradiction born contrary
All concord's born of contraries. Ben Jonson
contradiction science-and-religion true-religion
There is no contradiction between true religion and science Abdu'l Baha
contradiction centre smack
Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. Bono
contradiction abolition capitalism
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. David Harvey
contradiction okay
Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God. James Macdonald
contradiction bigs
My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions, Kurt Cobain
contradiction trade
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted. Johann Kaspar Lavater
contradiction productivity productive
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe