There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.
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Related 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON We got off a fast start. We put some pressure on them and were able to get some easy baskets. It was... MATT BERGER Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for u... SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR There were some that were really cool. Some of them came in with actual drawings, which was great be... GINA CAHILL I believe in one that all people are dreaming. This now, past and future is just a long dream, some ... DEYTH BANGER One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when a... ELISABETH ELLIOT It is time to start putting some of these ideas down on paper. Hiring a design firm to come up with ... DON JANKOWSKI [We were] not playing with the same intensity that I'd like us to. We scored that first goal and the... CHAR MORETT Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesu... DAN BROWN (Idaho State) can put points on the board and have the players to do it, and I knew it was going to ... JOE LEGERSKI It was just one of those nights where it seemed like we were just a little bit off on passes coming ... JAMIE LANGENBRUNNER Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK The game got away from us there a little bit. They knocked some balls loose, got aggressive and put ... DONNIE MADZIA Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible... SIGMUND FREUD Life as we find it, is too hard for us: it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible ... SIGMUND FREUD I said we are ready for any new ideas to reach to some compromise on this issue. They are supporting... MANOUCHEHR MOTTAKI We played some excellent football but then we dropped off too deep and allowed them to put us under ... ALESSANDRO NESTA Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing u... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER [From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this re... KARL BARTH Some of it was a lack of killer instinct or focus or desperation. But sometimes the ball just bounce... MIKE D'ANTONI We swore we were going to fertilize the bush and bring it with us if we relocate the station. Some o... LISA PARKER There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holines... JAMES R. WHITE If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own,... THOMAS MERTON It was just a matter of would he have enough time (to get the throw off). They put pressure on us al... DAN BRUNNER There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, a... VINCENT VAN GOGH We saw what they were planning, and it gives us some idea of what some of the issues are. MARK TOSO We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little ... JOHN BANVILLE Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward s... CHRISTOPHER HILL We are getting there. We made some mistakes late in the game. They put some press on us late in the ... PAUL ALTHAUS Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there. J.R. WARD Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 I compare the troubles which we ha... JOHN NEWTON In the world as it is, torn with agonies and dissensions, we need some direction for our souls which... CARYLL HOUSELANDER But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it... ELLIS PETERS If they didn't put a body on us, they just jumped over us. 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GLEN HANSARD It's not fun when you struggle and it seems like some of us are struggling a lot right now but we ha... JOHN FITZPATRICK Let's accept it that we remember people only when we have some work and only our Mother remembers... HONEYA As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ... COLSON WHITEHEAD Our work is only beginning. There will be a lot of conflicts. They have a contract with us, but ther... RICK CHILSON "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsen... F. D. MAURICE Continuing a series on God and the human condition: The situation in which we find ourselves in th... SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER That only takes you so far. If he were to turn the attention on her ideas, again, that puts it back ... DANIELLE VINSON We've got the whole community coming together to help us with this effort. God has blessed us, and w... ALTON SWANN We are often let down by the most trusted people and loved by the most unexpected ones. Some make us... CHANDA KAUSHIK There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO They put some pressure on the quarterback and made some plays for us. DAN MCDAVID There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us t... CONFUCIUS Even with a five-run lead against a team like Lancaster, it felt like a one-run game. It was importa... BILLY GARDNER Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to w... JOHANN VON GOETHE The kids and the staff are disappointed. We have to learn what it will take to put us over the top a... LARRY STRAWOET It was good to see us put together a big inning and then we just turned it over to our pitchers. CLYDE METCALF It really boiled down to us turning the ball over in some clutch situations. We had a six point lead... VIC WOLFFIS Surprise is just a paradox. Sometimes it annoys us; sometimes it shakes the tears of joy within us; ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always... OSCAR WILDE It messed us up a little bit. But we can't let something like this take us down because there are st... CAMERON LONG Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be h... DR. CARL SAGAN It provides the agencies with some good information, and it helps us take a look at who we are, too. LINDA DAVIS We were flat. We were cold, didn't hit a shot in the first half -- it just wasn't us out there. They... BOB HAMILTON In some respects, it gives us a good idea of where we are. MARK WILLIS God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, a... KIRK CAMERON I'd like to see us become more consistent on defense, but there were some good plays that kept us in... DAN CALLAHAN Coach assured us that he's secure and he's willing to move on. If he can put it past him, then we ca... ANTHONY FARMER Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. If you can get away with it, go for it. We were short-cutting a lot of times and our guys were comin... MIKE DUNLEAVY There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ... AARON COPLAND As long as there are differences in the interpretation -- and there are significant differences in t... JAMES HALL It was a back and forth game. Both teams made some mistakes which allowed us to put runs on the boar... BARRETT WILLIAMS Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ... DEYTH BANGER God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would no... C.S. LEWIS There were a lot of great races and some pretty good competition for us in some events. I felt it wa... CRAIG HOFFMAN There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when ... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w... JOHN BURROUGHS Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as... FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER We were able to put some boats between us and the Italian in today's first race, which gave us a com... DAVE ULLMAN What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in ... ALAN ALDA I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then... AUDREY NIFFENEGGER all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -... DALE CARNEGIE If everyone comes with their 'A' game, then who knows who's going to be in the championship. I'd lik... JAMIE CHIARIELLO We have to come out and play with some swagger, some aggressiveness. It just seems like sometimes we... BRAD BOYER They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy. ZEBULON PIKE I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, y... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The community generally wants to get it over with - to put it behind us and move on, BILL POWERS The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down tho... SUZY KASSEM Offensively when we were aggressive and took the ball to the hoop we played well. At times we were t... JOE RIVERS They went a little cold from the floor. And our defense combined with good foul shooting was enough ... LYNN RIBOLINI
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HENRY MILLER Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of... HENRY MILLER Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobilit... HENRY MILLER Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. HENRY MILLER All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience... HENRY MILLER The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth. HENRY MILLER We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something n... HENRY MILLER The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of... HENRY MILLER Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. HENRY MILLER It is preposterous and unreasonable. HENRY MILLER We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the stree... HENRY MILLER Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,... HENRY MILLER It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand ... HENRY MILLER In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. HENRY MILLER 1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new mate... HENRY MILLER Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too... HENRY MILLER Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r... HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc... HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo... HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ... HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient. HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t... HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am... HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean... HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ... HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c... HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to... HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n... HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس... HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa. HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en... HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas. HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ... HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring... HENRY MILLER