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«Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own»
«I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
bookshelf, bookshelves, building, content, decorate, decorated, decorates, decorating, grew, mostly
«I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is»
Author: Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf
(Army Officer)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
admire, character, deal, find out, judge, mostly, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, superiors, where
«I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.»
«I hate the way you talk to me. And the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare I hate your big dumb combat boots. And the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick - it even makes me rhyme. I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh - even worse when you make me cry. I hate it that you're not around. And the fact that you didnt call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you - not even close, not even a little bit, not any at all.»
«In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.»
Author: Molly Ivins
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
comatose, crooks, governor, mostly, occupied, Texas
«Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
adventure, adventured, adventuring, daring, does not exist, exist, mostly, securities, security, superstition
«It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.»
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
analyzing, art critic, botanical, classify, critic, critical, criticizing, ignores, imitation, impertinence, in the first place, jargon, jargon of, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, mostly, pseudoscientific, reasoned, The Critic, touchstone, touchstones, twaddle, twiddle, twiddling, work of art
«If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
almost all, amazed, eliminate, Englishman, gambling, mostly, shared, smoking
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