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"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."
"A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."
"This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t."
"Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes."
"I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow."
"Am I the only one who has wood over that little vixen?"
"I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better"
"Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them."
"All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible."
"Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know."
"Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground."
"A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave."
"There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter."
"Art: to nudge truth along a little."
"As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time."
"I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is."
"If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person."
"Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments."
"That which costs little is less valued."
"Dine on little, and sup on less."
