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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. Cesare Pavese
thoughtful decision sticks
I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it. Casey Stoner
thoughtful talking going-away
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone. William Shakespeare
thoughtful perfect levels
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful. C. S. Lewis
thoughtful thinking psychics
I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so? Charlaine Harris
turns satisfying limitation
How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none. Aiden Wilson Tozer
turns marvelous guise
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Denise Levertov
turns expected
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
turns
I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me. Tim Tebow
turns indication ifs
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. Dean Kamen
turns magnificent
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love. Ben Harper
turns
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out. Will Sergeant
turns
We used to be an embarrassment. Now it turns out we're quaint.
turns
How can I turn from Africa and live? Derek Walcott
twists film contemporary
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. Bill Paxton
twists peculiar ifs
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. Dean Koontz
twists
Everything is nothing, with a twist. Kurt Vonnegut
twists lines straight-lines
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. Giambattista Vico
twists looks fluidity
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending. Martin Amis
twists knots i-can
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. Rachel Gibson
twists males menopause
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause Julie Burchill
twists made turns
I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made. Juliette Lewis
twists obsessed
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist. Laurieann Gibson
unexpected film beats
Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon. David Brooks
unexpected unexpected-places
Love comes from the most unexpected places. Barbra Streisand
unexpected sometimes lost
Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places. Daniel Handler
unexpected sometimes unexpected-things
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen. Alex Flinn
unexpected plans
One cannot plan for the unexpected. Aaron Klug
unexpected wells one-thing
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. Charles Kennedy
unexpected persons beneficial
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. Ambrose Bierce
unexpected expected
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected. Alice James
unexpected crisis charlotte
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect. Alice Duer Miller
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-you-say
The words you say never live up to the words in your head. Chris Cornell
words
It was enough just to sit there without words. Louise Erdrich
words-of-wisdom causes obvious
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one. David Hume
words-of-kindness peace-justice refuse
I will not refuse to do the something I can do. Edward Everett Hale
words-of-wisdom desire use
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire? Carlos Castaneda