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spring cities rivers
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. Arthur Koestler
spring rocks government
Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her. Ben Jonson
spring thinking years
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. Abdallah II of Jordan
spring yoga thinking
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Dalai Lama
spring thinking government
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. Andrew Bacevich
spring training looks
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. Christy Mathewson
spring keys virtue
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
spring autumn heaven
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth. Soren Kierkegaard
spring men secret
Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory. Soren Kierkegaard
wind political ugly
I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. Barack Obama
wind play doctors
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation. Dolly Parton
wind long process
There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change. Chuck Close
wind doe earth
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail. Ami Ayalon
window silent
And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. William C. Bryant
wind jelly
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind. P. G. Wodehouse
wind people awful
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. Milton Friedman
wind gone cold
Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. Karin Slaughter
wind way faces
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way. Nick Hornby
sky today limits
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today. Ben Harper
sky childhood sorrow
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. George Eliot
sky earth dew
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. George Eliot
sky brave grace
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile. George Eliot
sky sea want
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. Friedrich Nietzsche
sky people shining
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people. Franz Grillparzer
sky bird flying
We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE. Jessie J
sky silence solitude
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. Jean-Paul Sartre
sky given robust
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! Friedrich Nietzsche