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adversity men open-minded
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. Will Rogers
adversity gentleman enterprise
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise. Winston Churchill
adversity thinking weakness
When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.
adversity trends horrible
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
adversity issues doubt
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
adversity years wish
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
adversity drunk down-and
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
adversity office feelings
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
adversity broken darkness
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.
ties waiting firsts
If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost. Vinnie Jones
ties understanding chinese
The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development. Wu Bangguo
ties fire amplification
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. William Shockley
ties purses kind
The purse strings tie us to our kind. Walter Bagehot
ties important fidelity
Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond. W. H. Auden
ties scotland cups
The main thing in a cup tie is to get through. Walter Smith
ties stronger would-be
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. Emily Bronte
ties tvs film
Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series. Noah Hathaway
ties insane jace
You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace Cassandra Clare
sky color television
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. William Gibson
sky color evening
It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade. Sarah Addison Allen
skype goes-on chill
I don't really like to go out that much. But when I do, I go to the movies, just hang out with friends. I go on Skype and iChat and just chill. Jacob Latimore
sky feet long
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy! Helen Hunt Jackson
sky white lakes
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
sky warning cry
Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries. Libba Bray
sky clouds excuse
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? James Clavell
sky lovely branches
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. Ogden Nash
sky brain sides
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson