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dry-up comfort population
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry. Alexis de Tocqueville
dry-up oatmeal dry
You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that. Kay Thompson
dry-up paint forty
I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
dry-up mind states
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up. James Agee
dry-up actors behaviour
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour. Gary Oldman
dry-up creative freedom-of-speech
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. George Orwell
dry-up continuation-of-life literature
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. Fyodor Dostoevsky
dry-up demand natural
Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy. Sheila Ballantyne
dry-up relief levels
Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant. Hilaire Belloc
continuation-of-life unhappy wells
If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life. Melody Beattie
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235, Joseph Farrell
literature behemoth bigs
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. David Mitchell
literature computer internet
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. Dave Barry
literature stones teeth
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. Dave Barry
literature genes type
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is. Dave Barry
literature enough bigs
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. Dave Barry
literature language speak
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. David Quammen