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usual hours foolish
E. T. A. Hoffmann Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?
usual holmes compounds
Arthur Conan Doyle I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes
usual world contribution
Liberty Hyde Bailey Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
usual way
Martin Luther Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.
usual speak partners
Henry Ford It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
usual conclusion educate
Marjane Satrapi Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.
usual common born
Blaise Pascal The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
usual timing
Jamie Oliver As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.
common lighter texture turkish
Yotam Ottolenghi Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
common elvis events meet people stranger
John Dawson The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground.
common expand fights policies populist sustain
Bruce Braley A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
common deal interests israeli serves threat
Dennis Ross Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.
common discourse helps inspiring ridiculous seem stylized talking trust
Noah Feldman When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.
common differs homosexual individual knowledge natural
Gore Vidal What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
common contend death die fight foes life ought small
Charles Glover Barkla We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
common-sense people atmosphere
Samuel Butler Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
common deal goofy men monster trying women
Edmund White Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
born demanded entire life maintained peace seems throughout
Chuck Palahniuk I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
born man
Billy Graham Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
born might options pilot
Jeff Hawkins The Pilot was born in desperation. When all your other options are closed, you might as well try to do the right thing.
borne campaign charges contract diversion entered fact funds government north projects public
Ramon Magsaysay The PIATCO contract was not entered into by the administration, it was in fact nullified by it. The North Rail, and other government projects and charges of diversion allegations of public funds for campaign activities, are also not borne out by facts.
born children memory partly perfume since smell spices sure winter yearning
Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
born cinema encounters love movies saw smash third
Denis Villeneuve 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.
born curious feet fine illiterate jumping kids mud natural playing problem turning
Neil deGrasse Tyson The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.
born create curious disorder leaves lives looking town
Neil deGrasse Tyson I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
born casts democrats dying hope optimism optimistic party politics risks social status took
Rick Perlstein My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.