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Letter "B" » bolt
«I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.»
Author: Brenda Ueland
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all the time, bolt, bolted, energetic, flowing, idleness, inspiration, kinetic, prime, primed, prime time, quietly, regularly, slowly, solitude, striving
«A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon»
«It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.»
Author: Frank Crane
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bearing, bolt, bolted, delicate, fitly, machinery, pin, readjustment, slight
«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
Author: Morris Mandel
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Progress
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advanced, alarms, bolt, burglar, Doors And Windows, huts, jungle, Natives, open door, sleep in, The Jungle, The Turning Point, to the point, turning point, turn on
«He has the attention span of a lightning bolt»
«Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.»
«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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across, bolt, bolted, bolt of lightning, cars, car window, cities, confused, desert, driving, factories, head start, highway, imagining, in the middle, lightning, Lightning Strikes, stick, struck, window
«Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night»
«Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Prayer
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bolt, bolted, evening, Evening Prayer, key, morning, morning prayer, prayer
«I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bolt, bolted, cue, cues, epigram, introduction, writ
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