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real deceit our-actions
Charles Caleb Colton The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real honest strategy
Charles Caleb Colton Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
real character mean
Charles Caleb Colton Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real home thinking
Charles Caleb Colton We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
real writing editing
Charles Caleb Colton Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
real heart optimistic
Charles Dickens Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
real words-of-wisdom quality
Charles Dickens A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
real men soldier
Charles Studd It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
past influence vain
Charles Dickens It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
past political reform
Charles Caleb Colton Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
Charles Caleb Colton There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
Charles Dickens "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past years tvs
Charles Stross My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
past giving video
Alanis Morissette Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.
past dangerous-situations risk
Alan Watts The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
past thinking differences
Alan Watts Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.
past thinking world
Alan Watts We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.
opposites anxiety forever
Alan Watts Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
opposites play effort
Alan Watts But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.
opposites spirituality holy
Alan Watts A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
opposites jumping risk
Akshay Kumar I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
opposites errors obedience
Aiden Wilson Tozer To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.
opposites fabulous feels
Chita Rivera You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
opposites cities london
China Mieville A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
opposites perspective people
Eddie Huang People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.
opposites play one-day
Deepika Padukone I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.