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Letter "J" » jars
«On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.»
«New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.»
«People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.»
«People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| Keywords:
desk, desks, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, jar, jarring, jars, small stuff, stuff, writing desk
«We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed»
Author: Bible
| About:
God
| Keywords:
abandoned, clay, crushed, hard pressed, jars, jars of clay, perplex, perplexed, perplexing, persecuted, pressed, press down, strike hard, surpassing
«When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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balances, bottle, bottle up, checks, comprehend, drain, engine, formulas, gravity, infinitude, infinitudes, jars, mill, Mills, patent, patented, ponds, profit and loss, retail, retailing, sold, valve
«Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Foresight,
Risk-taking
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clear-thinking, constitute, counsel, emergency, features, foresight, gong, gongs, jarring, jars, preservation, self preservation, strikes, The Emergency, unwillingness
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