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lying moving hunting
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. Richard Page
lying hate people
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition. Rebecca West
lying book reading
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. Umberto Eco
lying book reflection
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying political hours
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. Willie Brown
lying ideas choices
If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me. Woody Allen
lying boys views
This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.
lying reality people
It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
lying military criticism
I don't take criticism lying down. William Westmoreland
greatness men calling
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. William J. H. Boetcker
greatness distinction expenses
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. William Gilmore Simms
greatness magic genius
The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it. Robert Ringer
greatness healthy arrogance
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. Saint Augustine
greatness thinking opposites
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff. Will Self
greatness saving-money ifs
If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you. W. Clement Stone
greatness rumor use
I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness. W. C. Fields
greatness men tao
One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent. Zhuangzi
greatness achievement black-history
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. Yvette Clarke
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
men
I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
men money
I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted. Raquel Cassidy
men heaven have-faith
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. William Wilberforce
men joy soul
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
men sides harvard
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
men progress neighbor
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
men lines straight-lines
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God Antoni Gaudi
men temper ifs
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.