So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their purple dresses appear no more indicative of housing nerves and sinews than when they hang suspended from their hooks.
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Related People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts ... FRANK MOORE COLBY I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I... WES BORLAND Every time that I stretched him out a little further than his comfort zone you could see a little mo... BRIAN BUTTERFIELD It is hard to kill an airline. They can limp along for years. HOWARD WU Housing continues to be one of the top selection factors for site-selector consultants and businesse... KATE PETERSON If you rush the healing and rehab, the body won't heal correctly and you will end up with more probl... FABIO COMANA What we're finding is that adolescents actually use a different part of their brain than adults do, ... DAVID FASSLER It was a long head. It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the fe... MERVYN PEAKE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE What we know from the brain research is that kids and alcohol don't mix. It impacts their frontal lo... DIANE RIIBE Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA , RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANS, SARDA DEVI Some go limp as a defense mechanism. People think if they go limp, than they are content, but really... JENNI BEARD Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at ... ALAN LIGHTMAN Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provid... MARCO RUBIO Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which cre... ROBERT HEINECKEN But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the wh... GEORGE CARLIN The fact that they're moving up the timetable is less indicative that it's going so well and more in... ALEX BRAND When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, ... ALICE HAMILTON Their view of the child's welfare is such -- and it's so distorted -- that there's no way they can c... JAMES FEINERMAN The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i... ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined lin... BIBLE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ... THOMAS PAINE What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their mo... STEPHEN KING Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. Th... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You don't want to just focus so narrowly on housing prices that you think that is going to be determ... GARY STERN Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smili... FLORENZ ZIEGFELD I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more... E. E. CUMMINGS They let their nerves get the best of them a little bit. Hopefully they can get past that for (today... DEREK DION One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very d... FRED DURST One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip u... DARYL NEWCOMB Those that clamor loudest for Columbus to be erased from the pages of American history do so far mor... TOM TANCREDO The challenge to a person having an open mind is that the foolish people see his brain as an open to... ANUJ SOMANY Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nig... JONATHAN HAIDT America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp ... WALTER ABISH I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like... NAIMA ADEDAPO He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a... CRAIG GROESCHEL Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived... PAUL DI FILIPPO We emphasize placing people in safe and affordable housing as an immediate response to their crisis ... TIM WEST For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, ... RENé DESCARTES Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque c... JERRY HALL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i... DIANA GABALDON "Life is like a permanent limp dick, with an occassional blow job" [When told by Phil that life is l... LARS ULRICH We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reaction... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They want to move to a state where they're taking a view of their risk ... on an ongoing basis, supp... PAUL WOHLLEBEN What kind of world have we built when it is more acceptable to ask for sex than a cuddle session? �... KACIE CUNNINGHAM May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so y... IRISH BLESSINGS The valuations of property has been so far out of whack for so long that this (an increase) had to h... IVAN CANEVELLO The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with... MARINO BACCARINI When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the ... GEVER TULLEY For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and ... IYANLA VANZANT Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years bec... ANDREW WHITE They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they w... BARNEY FRANK It is a frailty of a person’s mind to find that an individual is different from an animal and so s... ANUJ SOMANY In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ... ARISTOTLE By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the s... EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them... PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess th... PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them... PLINY The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess the... PLINY THE ELDER Star kids always get an upper hand at the start of their career. People in the industry often know t... KRITI SANON It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more diffic... HAVELOCK ELLIS The new generation of designers, like Prabal Gurung and Alexander Wang, have hundreds of thousands f... EVA CHEN God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by mo... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and... DANIEL DEFOE Experienced trial attorneys tend to rely on instinct when picking a jury. You get an idea of the kin... JAMES DIAMOND And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve thei... JIM BOLGER There's (a) problem that I think is brewing, and that is the end of the housing boom in the United S... GEORGE SOROS Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. W... WES BORLAND People moving into Orange County are typically concerned about two things. They want to know about t... BARBARA STEVENS The biggest positive is that it pushed their maturities out, which gives them more time to grow into... RON BRINGEWATT if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so w... TONY BUZAN I do not think this is indicative of housing being strong, but rather that fact that people are expe... CELIA CHEN My hair is very limp. I have to put stuff in it so it's not as flat on my head. ADAM SCOTT Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Ho... DAVID GEMMELL The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual c... WALTER GROPIUS The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised lan... ERIC HOFFER It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew g... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot... MITCH ALBOM What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms,... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense... CHRISTOPHER GUEST One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when y... KAHLIL GIBRAN Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what ha... DENISE LEVERTOV I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and w... SIDNEY CROSBY (He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on thei... AMITAV GHOSH You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to th... MICHAEL ASPEL The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems... BEN CARSON I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
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