If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.


P.G. Wodehouse

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For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
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The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.
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I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach ...
JOHN VANCE CHENEY
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
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BILL BRYSON
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
ALAN MOORE
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more will...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
If I can get a 10-year-old a pair of Air Jordans, his allegiance is to me.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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JEROME LAWRENCE
There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.
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When the ball is in there air, it belongs to me. I have to be able to come down the jump ball. That ...
GREG CARR
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air
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I think it is a less than ideal environment for them. There are air horns. There are loud air brakes...
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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private l...
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The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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ardent, adj.

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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.
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It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!
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When you are on the air, there is no land you need to call home.
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Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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I took a glass retort, capable of containing eight ounces of water, and distilled fuming spirit of n...
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
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PITTACUS LORE
If I'm out of breath now...I'm going to lose air when I see you.
MICHIKO MELODY
If there is one thing I refuse to do, it is to drown.
HANNAH ASHWORTH
Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH
I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it ...
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MAHAVIRA
To love is to act.
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War is no solution to peace.
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I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
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By this letter I wish to formally notify you that I will continue to withhold my consent to the prop...
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AMY JORDAN
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “...
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The only thing they don't have is air conditioning.
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Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself i...
CIARAN HINDS
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DEJAN STOJANOVIC
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MAHATMA GANDHI
It is spotty. It's a trickier thing than getting over-the-air analog.
FRANK SADOWSKI
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'ROURKE
There's no use complaining about the air when it's the only thing to breathe.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me.
SAMANTHA YOUNG
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GARY F EVANS...
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful ma...
SENECA
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P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
I always advise people never to give advice.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
My only objection to the custom of giving books as Christmas presents is perhaps the selfish one tha...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Golf...is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge th...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is f...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Flowers are happy things.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and t...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE