I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
It's strange the times people choose to be generous.
It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent, and it didn't matter if it was just a warm-up of friendly sparring.
What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize.
You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.
The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?
The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky
But you must give my compliments to him. Yes - I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? - So many months acquaintance! - But compliments may be sufficient here.
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?
He surveyed the edifice from the outside, and admired it greatly; he looked in at the windows, and received an impression of proportions equally fair. But he felt that he saw it only by glimpses, and that he had not yet stood under the roof. The door was fastened, and although he had keys in his pocket he had a conviction that none of them would fit. She was intelligent and generous; it was a fine free nature, but what was she going to do with herself?
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.
He's a safe driver, he doesn't miss church much, he's friendly.
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
The minute you walk in the door, they come up. ... Like boxing, start pushing you. They'll kill you. A friendly one will kill you just as quick as a wild one or quicker because they come up to you.
I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
It's time to show them El Paso hospitality, ... The evacuees that come to El Paso will be wonderfully surprised.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
The world is visiting us and we hope that the world is carrying away a friendly impression of our manners and our capabilities.
Loyalty to America requires that we should preserve a friendly and encouraging and sympathetic goodwill toward our day and generation.
Friendly to peace, but not to me!
The same issues which are depressing the consumer confidence numbers are going to depress holiday sales, ... Christmas is going to show up this year as it shows up every year. The question is, how generous are people going to be Are they going to go whole hog and return to the decadent spending levels of three or four years ago No, clearly not. People are going to be buying toys, but how many presents they buy, how wide that circle of gift giving is really is in question.
This sponsorship allows us some friendly competition, which is always fun. We are especially grateful to Checkers for their donation to the Victory Junction Gang, our camp for terminally ill children. We look forward to racing the Checkers Gator car at Miami.
Smiles are important social cues that may tell us whether or not someone is friendly, and eyes are also a traditional focus of attention.
We both acknowledged that it's been a little bit of a circus. I think in a very cordial, friendly way, ... I think we were both glad to get to the kickoff and get it over with because no matter how hard you try, you know what it's going to be about. We got to share a little chuckle together, because we were both thinking the exact same thing.
It's a friendly competition. We don't get all upset over it, it's all fun.
The research we did suggested that there's a real opportunity for Century Bank to take advantage of its friendly, neighborhood focus and special retail-oriented services to carve out a productive niche in the marketplace.
Adams said Harrison was a generous friend and wise mentor ... decisive influence in my life.
We're all aware of the breast cancer situation on Long Island. It's a big sacrifice on the part of the restaurateurs. What they're really doing is making a generous donation.
I was advised not to do Scream because no one likes horror movies. Then I heard, 'Don't audition because you can't do this bitchy role,' and 'You're way too friendly, no pun intended.' I was also told, 'Play the girlfriend or the doctor or the lawyer - th
We'd definitely come back, ... We really enjoyed it here. It is a nice site, the hospitality has been very good.
I'm sure it's not easy, ... I hope that he's not reading into or listening to all the things that are said out there. It's not a friendly world.
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great minds great bribe.
People have been very generous.
Mountains have a decent influence on men. I have never met along the trails of the high mountains a mean man who would cheat and steal. Certainly most men who are raised there or who work there are as wholesome as the mountains themselves. Those who explore them or foot or horseback usually are open, friendly men.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
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