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Pavement slippery, people sneezing,Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;Titled gluttons dainties carving,Genius in a garret starving.


Mary Robinson

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Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
THOMAS FULLER You are little cold and little hungry; but someone else outside your room is freezing and starving.
M.F. MOONZAJER Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image o...
SARAH REES BRENNAN Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar . . . and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Lucas couldn’t have imagined that he would have ever felt so alone. No family, no friends. Even hi...
MARK A. COOPER This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There's forty different shades of black, so many fortresses and ways to attack.
PAVEMENT Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a ...
PAUL SORVINO Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
RYAN WHITE was coughing and wheezing and sneezing.
MIKE EASLEY Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.
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JULIE ANDREWS Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
PETE ROSE I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in...
JOHN MAJOR Lords are lordliest in their wine.
JOHN MILTON I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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DWIGHT BOWER And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER And love is love in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret ...
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FRANCINE RIVERS Surrounding people whom a person likes is not really getting ones who he or she is like character-wi...
ANUJ SOMANY He that is at ease seekes dainties.
GEORGE HERBERT People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
IMAN They're carving out districts in Tucson just like this.
FRANK MORO America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!
HERBERT HOOVER Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
JOHN DRYDEN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY We're looking at a very privileged class of people ? a House of Lords.
GENE STILP When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are st...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...
OSCAR WILDE The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON Not in my neighborhood, Mr. Robinson.
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO We are all beggars, each in his own way.
MARK TWAIN Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
JOHN BETJEMAN In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garre...
ADAM KENNEDY It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...
RONALD REAGAN A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Our school board is very benevolent in carving out these funds.
CHRIS WELLS It?s a slippery snow - more slippery than usual.
CAPT. DAVID FERLAND Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they cham...
JONAH GOLDBERG Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne...
F. CALVIN PARKER Tonight, Garret the soldier didn't exist.
JULIE KAGAWA I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissi...
BARBARA WOODHOUSE People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It's unusual to see freezing weather in March.
JULIE HOLCOMBE Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will<...
MARGARET ATWOOD Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
HEARD IN ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING: defined in such a way that WE ALL AGREE upon it's shared relevance and WHY WE WI...
HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX I relieve and release your hurt that you may be set free.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, wher...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND We're all mad here.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll te...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I've probably gone as far as I can with that particular genre,
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Sometimes, I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever...
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ANDY ROBINSON We will be monitoring the situation with Matt overnight.
ANDY ROBINSON It is only 48 hours since (Stevens) played, and 24 hours for the Wasps boys. We've got to see how th...
ANDY ROBINSON It is kind of difficult to communicate complex emotion in a car jealousy, passive aggression the pup...
ANGELA ROBINSON It is kind of difficult to communicate complex emotion in a car – j...
ANGELA ROBINSON I've never owned a VW before but now I am going to. I hope to get Herbie when he comes back from tou...
ANGELA ROBINSON She's having some troubles at home,
ANGELA ROBINSON With waits of up to 8 weeks for a routine screen for STI in some parts of the country and some peopl...
ANGELA ROBINSON With waits of up to eight weeks for a routine screen for STI in some parts of the country and some p...
ANGELA ROBINSON That movie has this kind of old fashioned franchise that they wanted to reinvent and reintroduce to ...
ANGELA ROBINSON