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«To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish»
«Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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Graduation
«We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been ? a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when»
Author: Starhawk
| Keywords:
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«To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Life,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
catch, golden, improve
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
catch, catches, catch it, caught, snare
«To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.»
«Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the last instant you catch yourself? That's how I feel all the time»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
all the time, almost, backwards, catch, chair, Chairing, fall, fall over, far, instant, In Rock, last, rocked, rocking, rocking chair, so far, The Chair, The Chairs, The Last, The Time
«Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
bullet, catch, catch on, count, increasing, metric, millimeter, nines, popularity, States, system, thus
«Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
boy, catch, Catch A, chirp, howl, howled, howls, insane, rat, sparrow, Sparrows, The Howling, The Sparrow, trout, woodpecker, woodpeckers
«The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
catch, king, the king, the play, wherein
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