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«Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Ethics,
Integrity
| Keywords:
artificially, come by, concealed, denied, faked, in the long run, long run, outlived, outlives, outliving, quenched, quenches, quenching, The Long, The Long Run
«Chuckie: Oh, I don't know that. Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up. And we go out we have a few drinks, and a few laughs and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.»
Author: Good Will Hunting
| Keywords:
come by, curb, drinks, good-bye, knock, knock on, pull up, seconds, ten seconds
«A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.»
Author: I Ching
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adaptations, calmly, come by, creative person, gains, small person, stroke, stroked, The Strokes
«Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.»
«And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: / Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.»
«In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.»
«A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
come by, Holy Spirit, sedentary, the Holy Spirit
«It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Feelings,
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
caring, come by, Rest of the world, very much
«A good role for a woman is hard to come by - be she black, white, or sky-blue pink.»
«If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by»
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