Quotes with single-string

Quotes 341 till 344 of 344.

• Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

  Bill Dedman
  American journalist (1960 - )
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• The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accomplishments
• interrupted
• pictures-in
• transport
• property
• mansions

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