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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
Raymond ChandlerRead
On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street,_x000D_ _x000D_ The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet,_x000D_ _x000D_ With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea_x000D_ _x000D_ And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.
John MasefieldRead
With aching hands and bleeding feet_x000D_ _x000D_ We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;_x000D_ _x000D_ We bear the burden and the heat_x000D_ _x000D_ Of the long day, and wish 'twere done._x000D_ _x000D_ Not till the hours of light return_x000D_ _x000D_ All we have built do we discern.
Matthew ArnoldRead
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HoraceRead
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
Ambrose BierceRead
Time doth run with calm and silent foot,_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
Christopher MarloweRead
Let's take the instant by the forward top;_x000D_ _x000D_ For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees_x000D_ _x000D_ The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time_x000D_ _x000D_ Steals ere we can effect them.
William ShakespeareRead
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
Nelson MandelaRead
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
Dick CavettRead
I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Dalai LamaRead
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
Dr. SeussRead
Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
Napoleon HillRead
Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
J. K. RowlingRead
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.
Terry PratchettRead
It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.
Aldous HuxleyRead
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
Benjamin CarsonRead
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Read
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor HugoRead
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
Max LucadoRead
Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Walter De La MareRead
There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
Samuel BeckettRead

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