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spring communication winter
Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
spring adversity mind
Charles Caleb Colton There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
spring sacrifice self
Charles Caleb Colton Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
spring london parks
Charles Dickens If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.
spring dark light
Charles Dickens In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
spring sorrow affliction
Charles Spurgeon From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.
spring flower light
Charles Spurgeon A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
spring book sea
Charles Spurgeon You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.
fate healthy feelings
Akio Morita The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
fate bonus share
Akio Morita the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
fate army hands
Chris Avellone When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.
fate long care
China Mieville So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
fate rome would-be
Edward Gibbon [The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.
fate unhappy might
Edward Gibbon Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.
fate civilization mirth
Edith Wharton She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.
fate feelings spontaneity
Edith Wharton ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.
fate destiny men
Edith Wharton There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
choices fruit good-intentions
Charles Simmons Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
choices tests faces
Charles Stanley The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
choices demand tough
Alan Autry Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
choices today tomorrow
Aiden Wilson Tozer When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.
choices remember clinton
Chris Christie Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.
choices black-history workforce
Daymond John When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
choices scarcity abundance
David Icke Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.
choices freedom-of-choice refuse
David Hume There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
choices emotion educate
David Brooks We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.