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fall dark night
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. Charles Dickens
fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
velocity realizing late
I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had. Jamie Moyer
velocity mechanic caught
I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics. Tim Lincecum
velocity busy life-is
An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy. Susanna Kaysen
velocity
Get my velocity back up -- it was down a little. Joe Mays
velocity work
His work had a kind of velocity in the way things were made, Milton Glaser
velocity worth
His velocity was down, and it wasn't worth the risk. Buck Showalter
velocity jupiter needs
A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success. Rahul Gandhi
velocity forgotten volume
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, Leon Wieseltier
vacuums done bathroom
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done. David Sedaris
vacuums speculation
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Baruch Spinoza
vacuums sometimes stills
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. Dennis Ritchie
vacuums loud cleaners
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us. David J. C. MacKay
vacuums head-of-state statesmen
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. Clare Boothe Luce
vacuums secrecy paranoid
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. Max Brooks
vacuums doe use
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound
vacuums
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum... R. D. Laing
vacuums cracks behavior
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. Kay Redfield Jamison