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mistake men thank-god
Charles Spurgeon Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake thinking saving
Charles Spurgeon Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
mistake military iraq
Alan Grayson U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.
mistake made ifs
Alan Greenspan If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
mistake successful careers
Alan Greenspan People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
mistake self made
Alan Greenspan I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,
mistake thinking different
Alain Prost Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
mistake boss clerks
Al Neuharth When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
men listening wish
Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men
Charles Dickens Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men brotherhood common
Charles Dickens The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
Charles Dickens It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
Charles Dickens When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Charles Dickens Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men talking two
Charles Caleb Colton When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
Charles Caleb Colton No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
men two rogues
Charles Caleb Colton There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
bears pleasure fullness
Charles Caleb Colton Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
bears obligation witness
Athol Fugard I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
bears country lions mountain parts tend wolves
David Baron We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,
bears beat cracked language move time tunes
Gustave Flaubert Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
bears fruit seeds
Chaim Potok Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown
bears ridicule
Caitlin Thomas Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
bears savages our-society
Benjamin Franklin No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
bears breeding ill
Benjamin Franklin He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
bears
John Shin We feel that such a possibility is still a long way off, but it is a development that bears watching.