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Of children as of procreation — the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable Evelyn Waugh
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Of children as of procreation — the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable Evelyn Waugh
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs – and have thousands of friends on their social networks – so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of … Read more
You look at William Powell in ‘My Man Godfrey’ and he’s a butler in that and he’s very dapper. He’s a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room. Evan Peters
Obviously my game wasn’t too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn’t too good. It’s a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn’t quite myself. Ernie Els
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. Erich Fromm
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others. Elena Ferrante
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense. Edward Rutledge
There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian. Edmund Clowney
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of … Read more
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound. Ed Stetzer