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Letter "R" » rescue
«Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.»
Author: Anne Roiphe
(Writer)
| Keywords:
circuitous, forbidden, heroism, know the score, rescue, scores, searching, The Kingdom
«The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.»
Author: Jeannette Rankin
(Politician)
| Keywords:
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«What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.»
«The contest, for all ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power»
«Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.»
«What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
discouragement, existing, irresistible, rescue, rescues, rescuing, silent, suspect, The Face, The Face of
«This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved»
«There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
at the start, creek, creeks, Englishmen, fix, just about, rescue, ruined, salt, whole thing
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