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errors trying spirit
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. C. S. Lewis
errors defense made
there's no defense except all the errors made Charles Bukowski
errors hurt plate
Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix. Whit Cornell
errors intention commit
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention. Stand Watie
errors evil looks
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. Rollo May
errors feelings friendly
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has. Maria Montessori
errors failing spontaneous
Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. Nancy Friday
errors game win
We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.
errors good improving mentality weekend
Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.
veils
Necessity is God's veil. Simone Weil
veils deals creatures
All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. Martin Luther
veils rich myth
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
veils midnight strange
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. Harriet Beecher Stowe
veils ill wells
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. Francis Thompson
veils
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. Aiden Wilson Tozer
veils faces eternity
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! Alexander Smith
ways
Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track. Andy Reid
way businessman wanted
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. Aubrey McClendon
wayne
Lil Wayne is a music god!!!! Jamie Foxx
way cameras helping
I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible. James Wan
way late learners
Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner. Ben Fountain
way mud looks
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor. Charles Dance
way useless programming
The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages. Jamie Lee Curtis
way would-be records
I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do. Jason Aldean
way fidelity characteristics
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Janet Malcolm