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«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(Actor, Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
| Keywords:
attributed, longevity, nights, ninety, reckon, reckons, Sat, slept, twinkle, twinkling, worried
«Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
An Age, every month, months, reckons
«Be in the world like a traveler, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| Keywords:
As of, dead reckoning, Passer, passers, reckon, reckons, The Dead, traveler
«Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.»
«Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| Keywords:
again and again, beforehand, break into, ceremony, chalice, chalices, dry, Leopards, occurs, reckoned, reckons, repeatedly, sacrificial, temple, The Leopard, The temple
«And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
above all, good enough, reckoning, reckons
«The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| Keywords:
includes, Olympic, Olympic Movement, reckons| Occasions:
Olympic
«A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.»
«Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used»
«Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.»
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