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elephants trying rooms
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life. Richard Dawkins
elephants nervous harpies
Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella. Rick Riordan
elephants water looks
I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) Sara Gruen
elephants goes-on normalcy
Life goes on with fragile normalcy.
elephants giving caviar
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant. William Faulkner
elephants sight lambs
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb. Saint Francis de Sales
elephants car bigs
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. Wyndham Lewis
elephants rhinos engagement
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc. Yaya Toure
elephants worry poaching
Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.
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
lambs lions world
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. William Makepeace Thackeray
lambs littles path
Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray. Joseph B. Wirthlin
lambs wells
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. P. G. Wodehouse
lambs bed larks
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. Nicholas Breton
lambs particular asks
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature? Marcus Aurelius
lambs doe cry
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not. Leo Tolstoy
lambs feels greater-love
There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat. Helene Cixous
lambs slaughter wanted
But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter. Cecily von Ziegesar
lambs arms shepherds
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? Charlotte Bronte