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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion MARK TWAIN There is always some fig leaf being used.
GARY HART a diplomatic fig leaf to serve for this administration and as a trigger to war.
BRIAN BECKER
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. MARK TWAIN
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf MARK TWAIN
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. FLORENCE KING
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript... FREDA ADLER
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. SAUL BELLOW
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. THEODOR ADORNO This is an attempt by the city to add apples to oranges.
MAXIMINO MEDINA JR
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. SAUL BELLOW
Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly... CHRISTINA ENGELA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers wi...
J. B. COLBERT The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers ...
J. B. COLBERT I think there's now a fig leaf over some of the corruption, ... Where there was naked influence pedd...
JAMES BROWNING
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Any possible move out of Treasuries by the Chinese will lead to a weaker dollar.
JAN LAMBREGTS
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out... BETHANY MCLEAN War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
SCOTT NEARING Basically, this is just a crazy kind of an attempt by the Cape Wind builders to somehow personalize ...
GUY MARTIN
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI It's all available on campus. Our goal would be to keep people independent as long as possible for t...
JOE HARSEL
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ... MARTIN BUBER
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ... MARTIN BUBER Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.
HARRY LLOYD This is an attempt to turn the clock backward. The Kenyan people will resist this attempt.
RAILA ODINGA Its possible that these three drugs work synergistically to reduce the amount of brain tissue that i...
DR. MAGDY SELIM
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptibl... ALBERT EINSTEIN
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Mother Superior jump the gun...-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE That really is going to be an attempt to change the playing field, at least for a certain class of s...
GORDAN HAFF It's been possible to do all this before, but it just took a much greater amount of times.
DON BULENS Describing the new species, it is an incredible amount of work to do this,
BOB STONE This is really an attempt, and not an unsuccessful attempt, to terrify people.
JEFFREY ROBBINS This is an attempt by the nursing department to place more emphasis on disease prevention and more h...
JANICE PUTNAM
Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing,... MICHEL FABER This is purely an attempt to do some good theatre, commission new writing, adapt the classics and to...
EWAN MCGREGOR This is an attempt to play a shell game with the law.
JOE KARAGANIS The reason that the Chinese have dropped their prices so much is that they are engaged in predatory ...
AUGGIE TANTILLO It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will...
MICHAEL FOLEY
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This, we think, is an attempt to frighten the media.
JOSE TORRES
I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to d... THEODORE DALRYMPLE We do see this as an attempt to hang him and put the screws to him.
TERESA TOMLINSON Chinese oil enterprises practice win-win and mutual benefits. Only by complying with this principle,...
CHEN GENG
Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
firmly opposed to any attempt to split Chinese territory and sovereignty. JIANG ZEMIN This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a...
DENNIS WHARTON Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
J. HART The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading... ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the s...
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of inter...
DOUGLAS GIBSON It was an attempt, a bold attempt, one that succeeded in some respects to obstruct the justice sough...
GEORGE GEKAS
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. MICHAEL J. FOX
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every br... SYLVIA PLATH By using its currency as an economic weapon and by pouring billions of dollars of illegal subsidies ...
CASS JOHNSON
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face."...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Please be SILENT and LISTEN.I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POW... SUNDAY ADELAJA Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.
ERIN FOSTER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Clearly it's escalation, and also an attempt by Iran to flex its muscles as it goes into a new phase...
YOSSI ALPHER When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power t...
ANITA ELBERSE
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us ... KRISTIN CASHORE This is an attempt to appease the Muslim world at our expense.
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... What I love about this so much is it hasn't shown its potential. It's more exciting to me to be at a...
HARVEY LEVIN It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount o...
DANIEL YOUNGER Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of eff...
STEVE HARVEY
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I very much would welcome and do welcome the transparency. To have the Chinese government officially...
CRAIG QUIGLEY This time we're breaking it by over three degrees. That's showing that not only is it record-breakin...
DALE MARCISKI
Fruit is freely given by the plant. It entrusts us with its seed, while surrounding it with the gift... MANGO WODZAK
Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the res... KRISTIN CASHORE Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ours...
MICHAEL O'BRIEN I won't be surprised if he plays. He's played on a broken ankle, ... We want him as clean as possibl...
HANK FRALEY As long as housing prices don't go down, consumers have more equity they can borrow against. If mort...
PETER MORICI But when you find someone working on the assembly line at General Motors is making more than a Detro...
PETER MORICI The overvalued dollar will contribute mightily to the US trade deficit until the Bush administration...
PETER MORICI Consumer spending has been pulling the wagon for a while now. That won't be the case next year.
PETER MORICI A trade deficit like this is unacceptable, ... It lowers our GDP growth.
PETER MORICI The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth an...
PETER MORICI If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image ... DAVID RIESMAN State Route 160 is not a new problem with the Highway Patrol. It's been our deadliest beat for the l...
KEVIN HONEA We're all for the facts about homosexuality getting out, but you won't find them in this publication...
JANET PARSHALL
The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w... MARTIN JACQUES Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER This is a desperate propaganda ploy, an attempt to link Sept. 11 to the war in Iraq.
ADAM EIDINGER Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. Y...
MELISSA ROSE LAWRENCE
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. 
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. 
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin... 
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive... 
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce... 
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa... 
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join... 
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. 
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. 
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. 
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w... 
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. 
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. 
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k... 
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. 
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. 
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi... 
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. 
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana... 
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go... 
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job. 
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t... 
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. 
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati... 
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w... 
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand... 
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs... 
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... 
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all... 
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep... 
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr... 
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ... 
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin... 
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir... 
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts.... 
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th... 
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t... 
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot. 
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love. 
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow... 
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. 
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o... 
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine... 
Two halves have little choice but to join;
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. 
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so... 
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. 
Twisting lemons into lemonade. 
We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w... 
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th... 
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to... 
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr... 
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y... 
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la... 
Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek... 
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... 
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness. 
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite. 
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e... 
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan. 
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. 
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. 
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ... 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up... 
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman. 
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont... 
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same. 
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t... 
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. 
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. 
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. 
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s... 
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. 
I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. 
So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. 