Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan,… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a… — Peter York Copy Share Image
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and… — Hal Huggins Copy Share Image
Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges… — Felix Marti-Ibanez Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere,… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
![“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your…” quote by Derek Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9ed/derek-parfit-38765_action_while-reasons-are-provided-by-the-facts_2530646.png)
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