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mean men light
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Charles Caleb Colton Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Charles Dickens Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
Charles Sturt The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
mean plot use
Charles Stross Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.
mean trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
knowing odds mind
Charles Dickens We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
knowing knowing-who-you-are mind
Bebe Moore Campbell Knowing who you are begins in the mind.
knowing matter triumph
Audre Lorde I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
knowing not-knowing pagan
Arthur Rimbaud I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
knowing rely-on-yourself factors
Denis Waitley The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
knowing born
Harper Lee Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
knowing loudest
Mark Twain The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
knowing name stadium walk
Tom Zupancic When you walk into this stadium you won't be able to walk out of it without knowing what the name of the stadium is going to be.
knowing faults serious
William Shakespeare Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.
pages three reason
Alan Ball If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
pages way celebrate
Charlie Munger As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...
pages addresses computer
Edward Snowden I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.
pages murder made
Eazy-E Another murder I committed made the front page.
pages passports extras
Bo Derek I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.
pages perhaps safe truly ultimate
Paul Di Filippo It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.
pages
Don Winslow So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
pages select send
Sergio Aragones For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.
pages social results
C. Wright Mills [O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.