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ocean men hands
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! Charles Dickens
ocean rhythm shore
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
ocean men sea
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.
ocean arrows mountain
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean often-is evil
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
ocean moon men
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.
ocean sea waiting
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
ocean night men
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. Charles Stross
ocean gnats would-be
As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine. Charles Spurgeon
rivers tree lasts
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money. Chief Seattle
rivers east valleys
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. David Hockney
rivers trash-talk aspersion
... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion. David Brooks
rivers felt
As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen. Arthur Rimbaud
rivers bed violent
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Bertolt Brecht
rivers drawing rocks
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. Alan Lee
rivers flow ashes
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. Chanakya
rivers yellow blue
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. Charles Baudelaire
rivers way path
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Charles Schumer
curves desire easy
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. Alan Kay
curves tsa agents
I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh. Bill Maher
curves rocks interesting
Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them. Benjamin Hoff
curves losing
I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them. Camilla Luddington
curves race tradition
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition. Chaske Spencer
curves hazard slide speed
It's a real hazard, because it curves a lot and because of the speed it makes it a real big hazard because they slide and fish-tail and everything. Jose Sanchez
curves joy unendurable
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. Djuna Barnes
curves subjects learning-curve
There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about. Brad Gilbert
curves lines facts
It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.... Jan Morris