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distance honor observe people rules
There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance Victor Hugo
distance few figured five problems ride seven took
I figured there would be five to seven ride clear. We put a few distance problems in, but we also made it very delicate, so it took a lot of riding. Robert Ellis
distance easy
It's easy to demonize from a distance. Rick Warren
distance heart bravery
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator. Samuel Johnson
distance book passion
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An authour cannot obtrude his advice unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.
distance believe ambition
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. Sam Abell
distance men numbers
Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it. William Hazlitt
distance wine air
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes. Wendell Berry
distance earth fill minute sixty worth yours
If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling
way happiness-and-success just-being
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. Meryl Streep
way done yeast
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. Dennis Potter
way would-be music-is
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way. Debby Ryan
way boycott best-way
The best way to boycott is to build your own Chuck D.
way achieve frustrating
We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating. Anne Northup
way might redeeming
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them. Anne Rice
way made
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. Anita Ekberg
way bats wavering
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard. D. H. Lawrence
way painting sometimes
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you. Susan Minot