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Charles Caleb Colton Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Charles Caleb Colton Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
Charles Dickens The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
children taken ideas
Charles Dickens That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Charles Dickens Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
Charles Dickens He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
Charles Dickens "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
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Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
fighting decision soul
Charles Spurgeon The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.
fighting people corporations
Al Pacino Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
fighting years careers
Chris Christie I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.
fighting who-i-am leave-me-alone
Chogyam Trungpa In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.
fighting earth grime
Chinua Achebe He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
fighting men coward
Chinua Achebe When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
fighting indian
Chief Joseph When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.
fighting winning secret
China Mieville Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
fighting thinking ideas
Eddie Izzard I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
animal mind facts
Charles Dickens You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
animal lions sulky
Charles Dickens Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
animal lust use
Alan Watts ...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
animal envy simplicity
Alan Watts At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
animal technology vegetables
Alan Watts "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."
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Alan Rickman I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
animal rocks rock-n-roll
Al Jourgensen Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
animal essence abuse
Aiden Wilson Tozer The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
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Matt Rossell We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.