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humor comedian realizing
Alan Moore Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
humorous america chinese
David Riesman America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
humor cat world
Gina Barreca The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
humor dying records
Bill Murray Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
humor sense-of-humor righteous
Bertolt Brecht The righteous one has no sense of humor.
humor musician humour
Carolyn Wells musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
humor heart sanity
Agnes Repplier Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
humor obscure social
Agnes Repplier Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
hands feelings excess
Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
hands soul half
Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
hands despair rope
Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
Alan Watts And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
use ham radio
Charles Simonyi HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
use lord preacher
Charles Spurgeon I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.
use saint sickness
Charles Spurgeon Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.
use tests
Aiden Wilson Tozer God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
use energy should
Chogyam Trungpa We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
use world pay
Chinua Achebe The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
use bigs type
China Machado I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.
used glamorous used-to-be
China Chow I used to be more glamorous.
use speech different
Edward Hirsch Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.