City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
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Related City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill ti... EDWARD HOAGLAND To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE When people are not skillful with time, when they have not learnt to manage and use time, and when t... SUNDAY ADELAJA Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Your time is your life therefore you must fight to regain control over your time and not be a slave ... SUNDAY ADELAJA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We... GARY F EVANS... That's what we try to do. We try to answer every time they put a number up and kill their momentum. ... ADAM DAVIS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE People anticipate supply and demand and go out ahead of time and try to profit from this. JOHN DAVI Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW try to keep people who are good in the city. ADRIAN FENTY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting a... JORGE M. PEREZ If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you thin... STEPHANIE KLEIN Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their s... MOTHER ANGELICA People lost many years of their lives as a result of procrastination, they lacked the ability to rul... SUNDAY ADELAJA Time management is critical to productivity because most people try to cram as much as possible in a... DEB HOWARD You rarely win, but sometimes you do. HARPER LEE We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a litt... FLIP SAUNDERS We are accused of being blasphemous but we are not interested in people's religious beliefs. We are ... MASSIMO POLIDORO The truth is, Krishna was born much ahead of his time. All great persons are born ahead of their tim... OSHO I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can. JULIA SAWALHA Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON When you see stuff like that happen, you have to put your heart out and try to help people in their ... LONNIE GRAHAM As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
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CHURCHILL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. 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You can't try and sell a piece of junk around here. People won't buy that.... CHARLES CLARK It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them ... WILL DURANT It's a time where both sides would have to look inward to try to get some sense of what their public... AARON MILLER The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend ... CHRISTINA APPLEGATE It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r... WILL DURANT It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r... WILLIAM J. DURANT As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to mak... SIMON MAINWARING Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are. STEPHENIE MEYER It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin... 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Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and... MANNY PACQUIAO It's a large shift to move from a car. It takes time. When people get in the habit of riding their b... IAN KLEPETAR people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work o... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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