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«Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.»
«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
Author: James Dickey
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
hoping, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, outside, poet, rain, stands, strike out, struck
«Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.»
Author: John Sloan
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
condemned, eager, hoping, inspired, painter, unsatisfied, unsatisfying, vitality
«An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.»
«And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I'm hoping to be in the final -- 8 o'clock sharp at the dance.»
«A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.»
«American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last. (October 27, 1964)»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
assault, business community, clients, conveying, crocodile, crocodiles, customers, family business, feeding, handout, hoping, invasion, issues, October, October 27, patients, socialize, socialized, socializing, studying, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, The Doctor, The Doctors
«An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
appeaser, Appeasers, crocodile, crocodiles, eat, eaten up, eat in, eat into, eat on, eat out, Eat This, fed up, feeds, feed in, him, hoping, it Ate, last, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles
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