![[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!](/assets/img/quote-photos/as-if-it-were-not-the-masterful-will-which-subjugates-the-forces-of-nature-to-b.jpg)
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age wicked millennials
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. Charles Taze Russell
age way young
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. Charles Dickens
age church body
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church. Charles Caleb Colton
age waste excess
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
age matter fairytale
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
age pay time-is-money
I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left. Charles Stross
age amusement serious
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle! Charles Spurgeon
agents very-good turns
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that. Alan Rickman
age towns my-family
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments. Alan Jackson
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
phrases used wells
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck
phrases may said
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. Daniel Handler
phrases fancy virtue
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Agnes Repplier
phrases speech accepted
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
phrases annoying told-you-so
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' Ayelet Waldman
phrases world currents
Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not. Ayn Rand
phrases idle truce
A truce to idle phrases! Aristophanes
lamps lava kind
I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them. Bella Heathcote
lamps daylight broads
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human . Diogenes
lamps way peeking
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. Cyril Connolly
lamps aladdins-lamp mines
Aladdin's lamp is mine. Ira Gershwin
lamps electricity
God is the electricity and we are the lamps. Marianne Williamson
lamps fans dresses
She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps. Maggie Stiefvater
lamps guides word-of-god
The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us. Origen
lamps overhead lighting
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. Kate Spade
lamps ladders lifeboats
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Rumi