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years preparation left
Charles Spurgeon If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.
years oil alchemist
Alanis Morissette I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.
years white black
Alan Watts ...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.
years people car
Alan Mulally Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.
years mad people
Alan Moore I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.
years rose three
Alan Moore It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
years style looks
Alan Moore It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.
years childhood arlington
Alan Hovhaness I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
two religion plunder
Charles Caleb Colton There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
two debt possession
Charles Caleb Colton There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
two firsts quarrels
Charles Caleb Colton Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
two iron gold
Charles Caleb Colton There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
Charles Caleb Colton If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two may acquaintance
Charles Caleb Colton Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
two people way
Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two literature may
Charles Caleb Colton The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
two small-changes society
Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
smoking identity cigar
Charles Dickens Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
smoking would-be habit
David Hockney There would be no bohemia without smoking.
smoking suing three
Kurt Vonnegut I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
smoking too-much cheetahs
John Green I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
smoking sake dies
Charles Lamb For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
smoking may lasts
Charles Lamb May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
smoking smoke
Cesare Pavese Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
smoking wells smoke
Benjamin Franklin Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
smoking chocolate baths
David Sedaris It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.