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wise art stars
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Charles Fort
wise war preparation
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war. Clara Barton
wise shoes feet
For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet. Debby Ryan
wise men soul-and-body
To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean. David Starr Jordan
wise philosophical men
A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones. Confucius
wise goodness select
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
wise wisdom attitude
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
wise men hands
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
wise men bunkers
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience. Andrew Lang
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book dark space
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond. Alberto Manguel
book ideas jail
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail Alfred Whitney Griswold
book alive classic
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. Alfred Kazin
book brave-new-world culture
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
book reading past
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
angel miracle attention
Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter. Paulo Coelho
angel men waiting
Eve: "What do you want?" Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel. Toss in a wicked sense of humor and stupendous wealth, who adores the very ground I walk on. Oh wait, you already have him. Nora Roberts
angel thinking space
If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic. John Ruskin
angel men present-time
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. Mark Twain
angel southern boon
When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.
angel air water
The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.
angel long joy
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy. Marianne Williamson
angel thinking levels
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
angel thinking self
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.