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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
parliament strength
I don't think that parliament will find the strength to annul its decision. Volodymyr Lytvyn
parliament since
I feel satisfied, it has been a long haul. I have been in Parliament since 1989. Derrick Kellier
parliament bristol members
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament. Edmund Burke
parliament serving-god nations
Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament? William Wilberforce
parliament congress cases
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so. James Otis
parliament direct mislead
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. Norman Tebbit
parliament split
A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario. Dario Perkins
parliament since time
I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time. Jeremy Corbyn
parliament wells paraphrase
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ. Kenneth Rexroth
suggestions compromise never-compromise
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. Arthur Bloch
suggestion
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it. Mary Wesley
suggestions liberalism ten-commandments
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. Malcolm Bradbury
suggestions birth slave
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion. Emile Coue
suggestions shifting climate
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation. Jennifer Granholm
suggestion time
It was a suggestion and time will go on. Steve Brown
suggestions stories actors
I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever. Lasse Hallstrom
suggestions arguing married
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women. Mark Twain
suggestion taking
All I can say is we're taking the suggestion under advisement. Richard LeVine