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mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. Charles Dickens
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
mean trust-in-god
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees. Charles Stanley
mean grace salvation
Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing. Charles Spurgeon
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe lines matter
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? Chris Bohjalian
doe absence
Absence of failure does not constitute success. Chris Alexander
doe happy-endings
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. Chita Rivera
doe chiefs
A chief does not hurry. Chinua Achebe
doe
Death does not exist. Edith Piaf
doe too-much
Everybody who does anything at all does too much. Edith Wharton
novelists poet copyright
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright Beth Henley
novelists perpetual
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. Simon Mawer
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. Jane Smiley
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote.
novelists philip sex
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. Ruth Rendell
novelists sooner-or-later
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. Dean Koontz
novelists filmmaker
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers. Billy Bob Thornton
novelists connections consciousness
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. Don DeLillo
novelists periods
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.