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«One cannot help but be aware of the great scurrying to borrow, spend, invest, divest or just flat out hide things in the next three months before the wisdom of Congress falls upon us.»
Author: George Vecsey
| Keywords:
divest, divested, fall flat, flat out, scurry, scurrying, the US Congress
«Flat-out flatness, the hard line of the horizon. I like the little towns with their handfuls of buildings huddled close to the grain elevators, like medieval towns clustered around their cathedrals.»
«Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.»
Author: James D. Finley
| About:
Chance,
Creativity
| Keywords:
creativity, encourages, fall flat, flat, flats, flat out
«Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy,
Friendship,
Relationships,
Tact
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, be intimate, come into, courtesies, courtesy, disagreeable, disagreeable person, flatter, flat out, intimates, intimate with, intimating, nearer, necessary, relation, tact
«Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| About:
Criticism,
Dreams,
Encouragement,
Love,
Motivation
| Keywords:
criticize, criticizes, encourage, flatter, flat out, forced, forget, forgive, Forgive and forget, ignore, may not
«He who cannot love must learn to flatter»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
flatter, flat out
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
charmed, charming, exactly, flatter, flat out, Friend, friendship, give it a try, giving, going, indeed, knows, means, of one mind, pain, please, preferring, prefers, really, say, says, tried and true, try, unpleasant
«Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
admire, blessed, envy, flatter, flat out, imitate, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, praise