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games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. Charles Dickens
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all. Alan Watts
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Al Alvarez
houston poetry poets required taught university writers
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. Edward Hirsch
houston colorado stranger
When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed. Brad Lidge
houston move office others storm
We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly. Ray Stone
houston support symbol team
From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise. Oliver Luck
houston selling trump
A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump. Conan O'Brien
houston lasers beam
Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio David Foster
houston hurricane rita
Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared, Bill White
houston invest nolan ryan tried
When I tried the sandwich, I had to invest with Nolan Ryan in the Houston market. Roger Clemens
houston knew lost somehow
We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did. Chase Utley
magic certainty i-can
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.... Chris Bohjalian
magic ponies stories
If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it. Chris Adrian
magic elements return
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. Caio Fonseca
magic paper perfume
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
magic antidote
The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words. Camille Paglia
magical natural
I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke. Nnedi Okorafor
magic done meetings
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand. Bill Russell
magic television rooms
When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!' Betty White
magic nerves method
There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. Arnold Bennett
objects ifs
What would you do if money was no object? Alan Watts
objectivity jam traffic
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. Chogyam Trungpa
objectivity literature littles
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. Dave Barry
objective standard
For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are. Lisa Gansky
objectivity literature moral
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Charles Baudelaire
objectivity maintenance attention
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. Charlie Munger
objectivity focus insightful
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity. Charlie Munger
objective opening possible ready
We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day. Larry Davis
objects overload places provide relaxation technology
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. Thomas P. Campbell
preference
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne
preference mathematician indifferent
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Alfred North Whitehead
preference rights stick
If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better. James Lindsay
preference strong
I have a strong preference for being alive. Alan Alda
preference
Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery. Mark Thompson
preference return striking strong work workers
Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work. Bud Grebey
preference
My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers), Dick Cheney
preference wear
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans. Orlando Bloom
preference strong
You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely. Larry Ellison
taken two expectations
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. Charles Dickens
taken ignorance men
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver. Charles Caleb Colton
taken law wish
A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. Charles Caleb Colton
taken connections physiognomy
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. Charles Dickens
taken skeletons wind
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down. Charles Dickens
taken thinking voice
Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. Charles Spurgeon
taken blood two
Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same. Charles Spurgeon
taken heart christ
When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you! Charles Spurgeon
taken grieving giving
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself. Charles Spurgeon
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! Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe
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
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. Charles Dickens
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. Charles Caleb Colton
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. Charles Caleb Colton
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. Charles Caleb Colton
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings. Charles Caleb Colton
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race. Charles Dickens
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. Charles Dickens
zero debt pay
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. Alan Greenspan
zero writing results
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.' Akira Kurosawa
zero take-me
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero. Akira Kurosawa
zero people towers
I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there. David Shuster
zero agriculture atmosphere
Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing David Miliband
zero taken ecosystems
To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system. David Korten
zero children kids
I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids. David Cross
zero cigarette-smoke smoking
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT. Dave Barry
zero law damn
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. David R. Ellis