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  • I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.

    Dog   Eye   Play  
    "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.
  • It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

    Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.116, Hachette UK
  • We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

    Noses   Ears   Snuff  
    Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.188, Spectra
  • Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

    Flames   Oil   Snuff  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2283, Oxford University Press
  • Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

    Funny   Giving   Sweden  
  • If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

    Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press
  • Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

    Hurt   Hate   Kids  
    JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”
  • Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

    Air   Soul   Vampire  
  • The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

    Learning   Fire   Wind  
  • Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.

  • Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

    Law   Democracy   Snuff  
  • I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

  • I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

    Loss   People   Special  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.694, Penguin
  • If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.

    Car   Track   Giving  
    "Justice League: Ben Affleck Says Batman Seeks to 'Redeem Himself' After Brutal BVS". Interview with Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. June 21, 2016.
  • What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

    Hurt   Silly   Two  
    Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

    Women   Example   Warning  
    Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.449, Modern Library
  • The damaged loves the damaged.

    Snuff  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.24, Random House
  • He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

    Laughing   Snuff   Boxes  
    Keith Preston (1921). “Splinters”
  • Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

    Past   Icy   Snuff  
  • Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

    Believe   Phrases   Snuff  
  • Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

  • Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

  • Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

    People   Half   Paper  
    Source: capote.wordpress.com
  • First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.

    Real   Kids   Effort  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash’s shoulder.) Please don’t hurt me, Ash. Please. I don’t want to die while I’m still a virgin. At least let me get laid before you kill me – which according to my mom I can’t do until I’m married and I can’t do that until I finish college. So you have to wait a good ten years before you snuff me. Deal? (Nick)

    Girl   Mom   Hurt  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.204, St. Martin's Griffin
  • Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

    Wine   Giving   May  
    John Keats, “Give Me Women, Wine, And Snuff”
  • First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

    Naughty   Sight   Hands  
  • God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

  • Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

    Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam
  • If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

    Pain   Rip   Night  
    "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.
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