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«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.»
«'Where there is a will there is a way'.' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so / to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
attainment, barriers, frequently, resolution, resolves, scales, secures
«But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.»
«If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales! It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas - no wonder my words have been impetuous»
«And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.»
«And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: / They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.»
«Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Mistakes,
Presidency,
Sin
| Keywords:
blooded, cold-blooded, Dante, hearted, in cold blood, Presidents, scales, weighs
«I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
basic, facet, facets, landscapes, liked, mammoth, motion, Motion pictures, movement, objects, pictures, reptiles, scales, snake, Swallowing, The Motion Picture