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strange-places people shadow
Douglas Adams We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
strange-places strange
Nina Simone I don't like to go to strange places.
strange-places way hours
Nina Simone I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
strange-places white house
Marlin Fitzwater The White House is a strange place.
strange-places world humour
Michael Grant It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.
strange-places ideas knowing
Madonna Ciccone But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
strange-places strange horror
H. P. Lovecraft Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
strange-places world strange
Henry David Thoreau The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.
class two people
Charles Dickens Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
Charles Dickens The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Charles Dickens Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
Charles Dickens The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
Chris Colfer When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out
class enough situation
David Weber She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.
class russia mafia
David Remnick There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
class want way
David Riesman It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
class community interest
David Ricardo The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
two religion plunder
Charles Caleb Colton There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
two debt possession
Charles Caleb Colton There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
two firsts quarrels
Charles Caleb Colton Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
two iron gold
Charles Caleb Colton There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
Charles Caleb Colton If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two may acquaintance
Charles Caleb Colton Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
two people way
Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two literature may
Charles Caleb Colton The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
two small-changes society
Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.