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“Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.”

Wells Thousand Yoga Things To Do

Author:Monica Potter

“The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.”

Years Wells Two Thousand Pages Two Years Manuscripts Rift

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

Wells Self Use Creative Thousand Mercy Victim Accidents Presentation Actuality Creative Writers

Author:John Updike

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

Men Way Years Wells Stills Three Lost Century Thousand Hundred Reverence Boston Crooked Precedent Calves

Book:Whiffs from Wild Meadows

Source: Whiffs from Wild Meadows

“The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.”

Ifs Giving Wells Long Would Be Millions Thousand Taxes Giving Up Six Hundred Vote Glad Income Passing Passings Ems Senate Cents Income Tax

Author:Will Rogers

“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”

People Way Wells Able Order Subjects Humility Pride Thousand Conquer Transforming Stoops Artifice

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.”

World Wells May Children Soul Cases Hell Sweet Thousand Mouths Ease Honey Alas Petty Nests Guarded Hives Nectar Vexation Wasps

Book:Emblems divine and moral

Source: Emblems divine and moral