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Letter "R" » rails
«That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.»
«Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.»
Author: Shakti Gawain
| Keywords:
disappear, railed, railing, railings, rails, resistance, stamp, substance
«Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.»
«By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself»
«Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Envy,
Relationships
| Keywords:
rail, railed, rails
«You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
come by, economists, infrastructure, rail, railed, rails
«Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: / Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.»
«A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bask, basked, basking, motley, rail, rails
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fence, fence rail, instruments, rail, railed, rails, rail fence
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