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fall christianity danger
Charles Spurgeon For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
fall believe men
Charles Spurgeon Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.
fall feelings tables
Alan Rickman I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
fall home years
Alan Greenspan Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity. Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
fall causes size
Alan Greenspan Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
fall thinking risk
Alan Arkin Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.
fall future past
Al Stewart Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
fall fighting age
Al Pacino I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
land promise nests
Charles Spurgeon He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
land our-world people
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
land holocaust hopeful
Edward Hirsch The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.
land water beef
Ed Begley, Jr. It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
land class community
David Ricardo The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
land agriculture together
David Ricardo Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
land firsts population
David Ricardo After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
land may corn
David Ricardo If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
landscape thrill enjoyment
David Hockney Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
hands feelings excess
Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
hands soul half
Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
hands despair rope
Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands doe lap
Alan Watts Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?