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Dorothy L. Sayers
Related Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. J. K. ROWLING I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot... KAZUO ISHIGURO Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals,... MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN Their coalition is weak, it really is, ... We have some people this morning who were undecided, then... BOB NEY We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak." ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. JOSEMARíA ESCRIVá In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these ... ROBERT GREENE You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured. "Such unfortunate language.... TAHEREH MAFI It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see i... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their... GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI I would like to thank those fans who have pledged their support to myself personally and to the club... MICKY ADAMS Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. EBERHARD ARNOLD Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder EBERHARD ARNOLD Those who labor with their minds, rule; those who labor with their bodies, are ruled PROVERB The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free o... STEVEN PRESSFIELD Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them. SOURCE UNKNOWN Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them. Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled. WILLIAM BLAKE You can't deal with being odd? ... Become like them... Become drug delear... DEYTH BANGER Only the minds of those who do not have family values. Will condemn a family as a criminal for choos... HAMLET GARCIA Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow ... J.K. ROWLING Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renuncia... GURU NANAK And those who respond to their Lord and keep up prayer, and their rule is to take counsel among them... QURAN Let the king who sees ,everything through his spies, discover the two sorts of thieves who deprive o... GURU NANAK Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their s... MOTHER ANGELICA Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if any... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylum... EVERETT M. DIRKSEN Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not
change their minds are incompetents in asylum... EVERETT DIRKSEN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois. FRANCOIS Those who look sober , always have something unthinkably conspicuous in their minds going on AJAY PRAKASH BHATE Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from other... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't even have to see stuff like that. I stand by the cage and I watch how somebody uses their ha... JOE MADDON "Isms" are tools used by those who wish to control the weak for their own selfish pursuits. MIKE MET My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular th... THOMAS STEINBECK There is no cure for sure for those who ensure to endure of their minds’ impure. ANUJ SOMANY Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I want to thank Freddie Mac, Hibernia Bank, and Usher's New Look Foundation for their work to rebuil... AL GREEN It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only th... PAULO FREIRE Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. WILLIAM BLAKE God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy... SOCRATES Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylum... EVERETT DIRKSEN Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried ... MARCEL PAGNOL Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, i... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The world only gives money to those who have converted their time into products. SUNDAY ADELAJA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the inter... WOODROW WILSON Only by doing good can one benefit. Those who detach themselves from 'bad' and yearn for 'good',dedi... RIG VEDA We said a prayer to really thank God for entering the hearts and minds of voters so they would exerc... WINSTON SMITH Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA They don't have those sounds in their vocabulary, so they have been practicing a bunch of words begi... PATRICIA STEVENS Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow... HARRY BROWNE And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,
Waved their torches to mislead him. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat ... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to bea... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, ... even those who aren't helpin... MARK STEELE Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ... P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ... P.T. BARNUM Great ideas germinate and blossom in the fertile minds of only those who follow their passion aggres... ANUJ SOMANY Father...knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he on... BILL COSBY A father . . . knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because... BILL COSBY Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can p... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools LORD CHESTERFIELD Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds. GURU GOBIND SINGH None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor ... SANDRA CISNEROS In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number o... MICHAEL SHERMER Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the ra... JOHANNES BRAHMS Impossibility exist only in the weak minds HASSAN CHOUGHARI Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existenc... WALTER KAUFMANN Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune. HONORé DE BALZAC Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse.... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, f... ROY BLOUNT, JR. I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their s... LYNNE CARTER You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once peo... LUPE FIASCO Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Considering the flurry of activity we've seen over the last few years, it's likely that those who ma... CATHERINE ADAMS It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking,... BILLY GRAHAM There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice wi... WILLIAM OSLER None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, e... URSULA DUBOSARSKY Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds. DON CHERRY Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, ... BARBARA BOXER The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing... SUNDAY ADELAJA
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GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag... GALE SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday. MATT SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes... GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ... GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt... GALE SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co... JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ... JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th... JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti... JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi... JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an... DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t... DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries... DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy. DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak... DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi... DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed. And who's the one that cares A trifling lot and... DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle. DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th... DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa... DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And ... DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a... DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'... DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing - A cherry bough gone white with Spring - But what I think, Ho... DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con... DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ... DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap... DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of... DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o... DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, ... DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I... DOROTHY PARKER