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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.


William Makepeace Thackeray

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Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. Hari -William M. Thackeray.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
RICHIE ALLEN Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out...
STARHAWK It's unfortunate, we lost a great player, who played really great for us, especially in our defensiv...
BENGT GUSTAFSSON Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
KAILASH SATYARTHI This is a very challenging golf course. We didn't play our best round, but we knew if we come out an...
EMERSON WOOD Our coach told us to get out on the shooters, make sure they put the ball on the floor and play help...
CHRIS ADAMS The way we played out there and the way they whipped our butts, that's going to motivate us. That's ...
DREW RICHARDS (Amanda Reimer) really did a number on us last year when they came up and played us and we weren't a...
CURT FREDRICKSON We're going against the defending champs. We can go up there and shut a lot of people's mouths. If w...
DEON GRANT We didn't play our best game. They played better than us. We didn't come out as strong as they did. ...
AMANDA GONSALVES Our defense played great. To shut them out for a half was a great accomplishment.
DWIGHT BOWLING We're going against the defending champs. You can't ask for anything more than that. We can go up th...
DEON GRANT We're going against the defending champs. You can't ask for anything more than that. We can go up th...
DEON GRANT If we let (being) the top seed go to our heads and we come out really cocky, other teams that really...
JASMINE WALKER When we started completing passes and gaining confidence, they took a man out of the box on defense ...
DAVID PARKER We didn't come out flat. They came out and swung the bats well. How can a team come out flat when we...
MARK KOTSAY We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of ...
ORRIN HATCH He wanted to let us know he was rooting for us and wished he could be here. He called us all and sai...
BRET BRIELMAIER We have been shut out since last year, and haven't done much to change people's minds until now. It'...
JOE ZAPPALA Citrus came out and played real well. I think our girls can play potentially better, but Carly came ...
DOUG WARREN Offensively, we need to come out with a chip on our shoulder. Basically, the whole team needs to com...
LANCE WHITESIDE You know, we have to learn to button it up, to be quiet and just play basketball. The refs seemed to...
FRED SKROCKI Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
SITTING BULL Our defense has been the fuel for our offense all season long. We intended to come out strong and pl...
BRENDA ELLIS I was in the Santa Rosa Musician's Union. Get gigs, come out and play. Four or five guys who never p...
DAN HICKS Our kids came out focused tonight - Carter was on fire in the first half. But then they switched to ...
SONDRA VOGEL I hate it that it's come at this time of year, when everything in the conference is up for grabs. It...
BRENT BENSON We talked about it and we really don't care who we play against because, no matter who we play again...
ASHLEY HENDERSON I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
JOSé MOURINHO They definitely took us out of some of the stuff we try to run. We just didn't come out ready to pla...
BRYSON KRUEGER They were really important points tonight, and we let them slip away. We've got to come out with mor...
SCOTT HANNAN I'm happy to come home and have a chance to play in the Garden and play against my cousin and have o...
SEBASTIAN TELFAIR They dominated us last year in league play and we wanted to shut them up.
CAMERON TAUBERT Please let us build our own homes. Let us come back on our own time. Let us spend our insurance mone...
CHARLES YOUNG We haven't played up to our level of expectations the past two games. The more we play together and ...
KATIE AARON We had to come out and play the best tennis we've played all year. I was very impressed with Penn wi...
MARK NOE We stepped it up today. We haven't played in a while and we were just ready to come out and play.
JAMES REID This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much a...
JOSEPH ALOIS SCHUMPETER (Cole) definitely played within herself. She let the game come to her. She got out on the break and ...
ANDI EICHMANN The fire box should be cleaned out of old ashes and make sure you shut your damper.
DALE LEVIS Penn State did a great job defensively, which made it difficult for us to get into our offense. Thei...
LISA BLUDER Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enoug...
ZOLTAN KODALY Typically, we come out and play well early and that helps us establish our game. That wasn't the cas...
CAL SAUNDERS Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and ...
BIBLE They left a lot of sour grapes with us after that loss. We want to come out with a hard intensity al...
KALEB TOTH I'm just appreciative they let us come down here and play. We needed to play.
BOB GRAY It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are pupp...
STANLEY MILGRAM What we are trying to do now is develop consistent play for three periods. In the first two periods ...
GEORGE DEMELLO You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and ca...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We're looking forward to the challenge of playing at the state tournament. We have to go up there an...
CHRIS DUNCAN Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For th...
BIBLE It was great to see our kids come out and get off to a great start and play well for 48 minutes. I t...
DAN STARKEY Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill har...
LYNN KURLAND That was not our best effort. We didn't play hard. We didn't play with the intensity and desire they...
LLOYD CHURCH I play the Demon myself -- no puppets involved.
ELIZABETH KENNY This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not l...
BARACK OBAMA Remember William Cooper, he fought hard for what was right and paid the ultimate price. Let us never...
ENRIQUE VEGA Hopefully we will come out an play better in the first period. That basically put us out of our game...
ELISEO SALDIVAR This is a great team effort for us. We played great defense to shut out a team like that. Offensivel...
TOM STACY They out-hit us. We had no offense. They played with just that desire. They played aggressively. The...
IRICK GARDNER We played unorganized, we didn't come out aggressive, we didn't show any life, and we just didn't pl...
SARAH REEVES Defense sets the standard for our game. The refs let us play a little rough on defense, and that's t...
CHASE DICKENS Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappoin...
BRUNO BETTELHEIM It had to come to an end sometime. We played hard and didn't give up, but our shots weren't falling....
CHARLES BURKS In the first quarter for six minutes I thought we played good. I think that our kids thought 'this i...
DAVE LUTZ It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy o...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE We hadn't played in over a week. Anytime a team doesn't get to play within however long, they're goi...
CLAIRE COGGINS The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
ELLEN GOODMAN I was fatigued. But we couldn't let (the illnesses) affect us. We knew we were going to play. We had...
ALEX KOCK That is our game, that's how we played. We're an up-tempo team. If they can play with us, then we'll...
BRANDON POWELL It's good for them to come out the way they did. I am just proud the way they showed up today. I had...
JAY HARPER He just came out and played like he could play. We all know he can play like that night-in, night-ou...
RYAN APPLEBY We have been awful vocal against the referees this year and that might be coming back to bite us. I ...
CHRIS GRATTON I definitely want to come out and play strong every time. Not to make them out to be something they'...
MATHIAS KIWANUKA He looked more comfortable out there. He played within himself and let the game come to him. I was r...
BRETT GRAHAM Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
W. EDWARDS DEMING You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
MARAT SAFIN We figured they'd come out and try to run the option on us. We knew we had to shore up our assignmen...
JOSH WRIGHT We had to turn it up and play hard. Coach told us at halftime that we had to play hard for those 16 ...
TELYSHIA ADAMS They just flat stopped us. Our game plan got shut out.
HUGH CHARLES We got together (as a defense) and met and let it be known that the way we played last week was unac...
ANTHONY MONTGOMERY To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY