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«I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.»
Author: Luigi Barzine
| About:
Cooking,
Libraries,
Time
| Keywords:
Columbia, dish, embarrassed, famish, famished, gourmet, gourmets, intimidated, invited, on request, request, restaurant
«One almost expects [one of the players] to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to read the greens.»
«If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| Keywords:
captivity, captured, duress, negotiation, negotiations, request
«If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
come with, dispute, disputing, gain, in dispute, judge, on request, on the other hand, request, requested, Strangers
«Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.»
«Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! / Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! / Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.»
«I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, / Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, / For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; / Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: / Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.»
«Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, / The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, / The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, / The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, / The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest: / This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.»
«Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abuse, basically, deceive, futile, mistreat, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, request
«Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, at ease, governors, indiscriminate, petitioner, presently, redress, redressing, request, wrongs
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