Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
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When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
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Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
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Eyes never see, Ears never hear, when you are emotional
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Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.
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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
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Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.
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It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.
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Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
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Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.