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drunken lamp man rather statistics support uses
Source Unknown Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.
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Andrew Lang An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
drunken group last second
Chris Neil But this is the second one we've had - a group of drunken Scotsmen stole the last one!
drunken night sleep
Bible Bible For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
drunken man rather statistics support uses
Andrew Lang He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination
drunken man rather statistics support uses
Andrew Lang He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination.
drunken man rather uses
Andrew Lang He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
drunken people sort time
Rob Lowe It was just one of those quirky, sort of naughty, sort of wild, sort of, you know, drunken things that people will do from time to time.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
people littles controversy
Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
people waiting lord
Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
sort thinks turns viewer
Nigel Kneale You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
sort until
John Godfrey Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.
sort work
Ernie Hudson I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.
sort trend
Paul Souza We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.
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Candace Parker What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
sort start stuff teammate whether
Julia Mancuso We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.
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Kent Davison About time we get one at home, don't you think? It is sort of crazy.
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Pete Doherty It's just some sort of mistake, that's all,
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time fool calendars
Charles Caleb Colton Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Charles Caleb Colton Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Charles Caleb Colton Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
Charles Caleb Colton To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Charles Caleb Colton Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
time past gone
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.