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distance honor observe people rules
There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance Victor Hugo
distance few figured five problems ride seven took
I figured there would be five to seven ride clear. We put a few distance problems in, but we also made it very delicate, so it took a lot of riding. Robert Ellis
distance easy
It's easy to demonize from a distance. Rick Warren
distance heart bravery
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator. Samuel Johnson
distance book passion
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An authour cannot obtrude his advice unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent. Samuel Johnson
distance believe ambition
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. Sam Abell
distance men numbers
Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it. William Hazlitt
distance wine air
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes. Wendell Berry
distance earth fill minute sixty worth yours
If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling
fall self fall-into-place
When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place. Billy Blanks
fall shoes half
I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over. Bobby Darin
fall persons syllables
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. Don DeLillo
fall wish earth
I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now. Amber Valletta
fall reality literature
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. Chuck Palahniuk
fall hey destruction
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Chuck Palahniuk
fall might roof
The roof might fall in; anything could happen. Dashiell Hammett
fall thinking car
You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you? Andy Murray
fall believe mind
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning. Ambrose Bierce