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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Laurence Sterne
God Wind Lamb
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Laurence Sterne
World Criticism Worst Though Hypocrites Most May Which Cant
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. Laurence Sterne
People Some People Books Way Some Most Learn Lords Brag Accomplished Titles Acquaintance Them Then Using Serve
There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way. Liam Cunningham
Life Character Joy Not Knowing Way Bit Out Like Knowing Roll Goes Going Certain Moment Amount Playing
I think everybody should have an interest in peace prevailing and the ridiculousness, the bestiality of war. I don't have any time for that. Anybody pulling a trigger is wrong. There is no right in war. Liam Cunningham
War Time Peace Think Everybody Trigger Prevailing Wrong Any Anybody Interest Should Right Pulling
I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging. Liam Neeson
Day Every Day Try Every Jog Stay Jogging Hates Something Fit Body
I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. Liam Neeson
Citizen Become Course Proud Still Very Irishman American American Citizen
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. Maeve Binchy
Good Family Age Happy Old Old Age Around Still Been Friends Very Family And Friends Lucky Good Family
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out. Maeve Binchy
Buy You Library Change Garden Old Plant Bird Will Blessed Clothes Books Out Window Thrift Rather Take Bag Box Been Friends Than Get Store Old Clothes Them Your Who Fill Things Bring
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. Marguerite Gardiner
Ignorance Men Forged Apart Prejudices Chains Keep
I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier. Marian Keyes
Today War Day You Every Day Tough Looking Every Mindset Once Alive Easier Constantly Pretty Like Yeah Shift Up Uneasy Getting Going Pity Much Really
People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems. Marian Keyes
People Cause Problems Big Worry Bit Promise Part Also Stick Spouse Causes Shock Poorer Richer
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser. Marian Keyes
Truth You Truth Is Stronger Weaker Rather My Truth Wiser Although Makes Than
There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace. Martin McGuinness
Peace Diplomacy Military Lasting Lasting Peace Solutions Only Dialogue Guarantee
I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am. Michael D. Higgins
Home You Welcome Wonderful Will Thank You Say Sincere Welcome Home Return Because Always Am Very Thank Where Want Place
Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world. Michael D. Higgins
Age World Better Own Every Dream Must Kinder Shared After Happier
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith
Future Alone Great Wise Regret Past Lies Great Source Calamity Source Anticipation Person Regardless Who Therefore Present Thinks
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Oliver Goldsmith
Smile Fools First Melancholy Feel Make Always End May In The End Us Company
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Oliver Goldsmith
Good Learning Genius Better Gives Puzzle Maintain Discerning Nonsense Brain Liquor Grammar
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Oliver Goldsmith
Weed Virtue Faults Out Scarce Some Excellence Allied Without Vice Nearly
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world. Os Guinness
You World Key Our Analyzing Dangers Recognize More Discerning Times Where Places Should Used Resist Sociology
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered. Os Guinness
Balance Vision Will Lost Has-Been Soon Since Days Identity Been American Sixties American Identity Republic Unifying Numbered
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. Oscar Wilde
World Believe Incredible Those Classes Divided Improbable Who Two
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
Death Good Reputation Down Live Nowadays Everything Good Reputation Except Survive
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Complaint Our Those Statue Absolutely Splendid Faculty Noble Powerless Limbs Judging Aesthetic Dumb Lips Modelling Curves Us Help Gratified Marble
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde
Man Woman Marriage World Nothing Married Married Man Married Woman About Like Devotion Knows Anything Thing
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