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  • A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

    Dream   Rivers   Flow  
  • Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

    Done   Deeds   Sake  
  • When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

    Humble   Fire   Adages  
    Song: Magic and Loss, Album: Magic and Loss, 1992
  • Age doesn't make a man.

    Men   Age   Adages  
    Song: Vance
  • The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.

    Baby   Men   Adages  
  • I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

    People   Film   Should  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

    Men   Lazy Man   Pay  
    Song: Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie
  • Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391
  • Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

    Art   Cat   Waiting  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35
  • When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

    Flower   Heart   Adages  
    Song: When Heart Is Open, Album: Common One
  • Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

  • Make a destination of the greater truth.

    Song: Rite Of Passage
  • I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

    Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books
  • Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

    Fall   Simple   Criticism  
  • If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

    Mind   Adages   Ifs  
    Song: Flesh, Album: Healing
  • People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

  • Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

    Lying   Promise   Adages  
    Song: Never Is a Promise, Album: Tidal, 1996
  • One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

    Men   Fire   Light  
    Song: Split Decision, Album: Back in the High Life
  • When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

    Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.30, Faber & Faber
  • If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

    Faces   Tomorrow   Adages  
    Song: Race Among The Ruins, Album: Summertime Dream
  • If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

    Life   Change   Thinking  
  • What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

    Heart   Adages   Cloudy  
  • Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.

  • There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.

    Writing   Hands   Joy  
    Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications
  • Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

    Oil   Judging   Mind  
  • With few words, one can speak the truth.

    Song: Native Son
  • Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

    Blood   Giving   May  
    Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel
  • There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

    Plot   Done   World  
  • Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?

    Morning   Simple   Joy  
    Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.979, Dell
  • One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

    Loss   Common   Broke  
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