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Letter "S" » Sat
«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
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Actor,
Film Director,
Writer)
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About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
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Keywords:
attributed,
longevity,
nights,
ninety,
reckon,
reckons,
Sat,
slept,
twinkle,
twinkling,
worried
«A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.»
«But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.»
«God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.»
«And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, / And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
alabaster,
anointed,
anoints,
hairs,
In the City,
kissed,
ointment,
ointments,
Pharisee,
Sat,
sinner,
The City,
wash,
weeping,
wipe
«Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2).»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
despising,
endured,
fixing,
Hebrews,
perfecter,
right-handed,
right hand,
Sat,
The Author,
The cross,
throne
«And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.»
«And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death»
«And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, / `I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine'.»
«Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Grief
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Keywords:
cheek,
damask,
feed,
feed on,
monument,
pined,
pines,
pining,
Sat,
smiling,
yellow