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wise neglect deny
William James To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
wise men banking
Will Durant Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
wise needs
Sara Evans Even the wise need wisdom.
wise exercise men
William Ellery Channing Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
wise book men
William Ellery Channing The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
wise women trying
William Faulkner You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
wise strive wanted
Raymond E. Feist Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
wise witty art
Richard Francis Burton [Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.
mother treat
Susan Wyderko We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.
mother power talking taught
Linda Lavin He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.
mother believe men
Richard K. Morgan When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.
mother believe thinking
Richelle Mead Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.
mother father mean
Richelle Mead For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father: always capable of achieving his goals, no matter how twisted the means. Uneasily, I began to understand how I’d inherited my bizarre personality.
mother escaping people
Richelle Mead Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?
mother baby wine
Richelle Mead I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn’t so damned good-looking. “Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine.” “I think you’re proving my point for me,” I said dryly
mother father heaven
Richard Baxter Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
mother children father
Richard Baxter We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.
lying moving hunting
Richard Page As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.
lying hate people
Rebecca West There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
lying book reading
Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
lying book reflection
Umberto Eco Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying passion insane
Umberto Eco The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
lying practice dames
Raymond Chandler Dames lie about anything - just for practice.
lying political hours
Willie Brown In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
lying white introducing
William S. Paley White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
lying book men
William S. Burroughs When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.