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women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. Charles Caleb Colton
women believe littles
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically. Alan Ayckbourn
women thinking different
Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different. Chris Abani
women rights expression
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
women next dresses
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next. Edith Sitwell
women piano government
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
women eels people
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
women hair genius
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair. Edith Wharton
women men sells
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible. Earl Wilson
order kind all-kinds
I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living. Alan Hovhaness
order goal support
I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown. Alan Autry
order differences actors
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act. Al Pacino
order giving balls
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
order
Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist. Aiden Wilson Tozer
order giving trying
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
order tragedy important
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
order play suffering
A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. Chico Hamilton
order history earth
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon
practice judging use
It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.
practice breathing bridges
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one. Alan Watts
practice pay-the-price people
If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
practice justice forever
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.
practice world spread
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. Edward Jenner
practice bridges giving
The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms. David Hilbert
practice may ethics
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. David Hume
practice keys genius
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft. David Brooks
practice problem solve
Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.' Barry Commoner