“ Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side. If we could know! ”
- Julia Harris May- Copy
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“ When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- Copy
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“ The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
- 785
“ Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. ”
- C.R. Lawton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 393
“ Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. ”
- Patrick Ewing- Copy
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“ One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else? ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ We are looking to expand in Russia but it will probably be through greenfield expansion. ”
- Alan Clark- Copy
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“ I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'. ”
- Jon Stewart- Copy
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“ Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires — and expires, too soon, too soon — before life itself. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 3K
“ Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. ”
- Richard Branson- Copy
- 606
“ A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 992
“ Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 148
“ So I want to warn you laddy, Though I think you're perfectly swell, That my heart belongs to daddy, And my daddy he treats it so well. ”
- Cole Porter- Copy
- 806
“ Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
- 522
“ Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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