In my fourteenth year I had gone up to London for the first time, to see as many of the sights as could be got into a fortnight.
In my fourteenth year I had gone up to London for the first time, to see as many of the sights as could be got into a fortnight.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss.
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread for grain is grass and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.
We do not have anyone in mind but would hope to make an appointment in the next fortnight.
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Pre-game pep talk before facing England 'Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and they only live in them for a fortnight every 12 months. What have they given us Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English - and that's who you are playing this afternoon
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
Both London and ourselves will fancy our chances in a fortnight. And we must perform on the day as the Challenge Cup could prove to be very lucrative.
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
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