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break-off rivers snow
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work. Pat Conroy
break-off feet waiting
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
break-off red bleeding
You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding. Elizabeth Smart
break-off trying break
Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off. Jan Garbarek
break-off sight enemy
It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. Saadi
break-off remember sin
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off Christopher Hitchens
sight differences may
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. Richard Perle
sight ties understanding
... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh. Rebecca West
sight earth pages
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future William Jennings Bryan
sight mind age
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries. Woodrow Wilson
sight perspective shifting
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. William James
sight mind growing
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.
sight rights gentleman
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman. William Gilmore Simms
sight vision lost
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. Robin Green
sight mind body
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave. Robert Schumann
enemy focus leadership people pitch solid terrific trying worst
He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous. Jason Portz
enemy habit picking weak
He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.
enemy vampire-academy last-sacrifice
You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Richelle Mead
enemy lessons next
You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you—which will be soon. Love, D.
enemy wanted
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have. Truman Capote
enemy armor addresses
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it. William Shenstone
enemy may littles
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
enemy annoying stills
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect. William Saroyan
enemy way serving
Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them. Will Davis