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«What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abandoning, comforts, eagerly, expend, expended, expending, expends, futile, home in, in the first place, landing place, largely, odd, quantities, recapture, recaptured, Strange Land, tourism, vast
«We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'»
Author: Gabriela Mistral
| Keywords:
abandoning, bad blood, bones, developed, errors, formed, fountain, guilty, neglecting, Now is the Time, Right Now, The Children, The Fountain
«Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things»
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Politicians,
Voting
| Keywords:
abandoning, accused, Republicans, the other way around, vote
«To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
abandoning, consensus, No Policy, objects, policies, The Process
«We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| Keywords:
abandon, abandoning, convictions, Traditions, urge
«One who does all work as an offering to the Lord, abandoning attachment to the results, is as untouched by sin [or Karmic reaction] as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.»
«It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abandoning, autumn, branches, bury, comforting, impenetrable, lie in, moaning, odors, warmth
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