Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant
would drown.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
MATHEW HENRY In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, ...
JOHN OWEN In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, ...
JOHN OWEN Henry Wade did inspire a lot of young lawyers.
TOBY SHOOK I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.
MISHI MCCOY Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to ...
MARILYN MANSON The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where c...
REBECCA MCNUTT Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. FIELDS Where we goin’?” Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the ro...
CAROLEE DEAN They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on th...
KHALED HOSSEINI I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. P...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where t...
BIBLE I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if...
BARRY GOLDWATER He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELL Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
GROVER NORQUIST A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be toda...
BARRY GOLDWATER It could be a situation where there was a need for narcotics and she wouldn't give him the money, or...
DAVID HUFFMAN In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of...
KAREN MAITLAND Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in w...
WALTER MURCH It's always been a dream of mine where I could have a place where I could grow healthy food and have...
DENELL STOSIO It's never been an area where salmon could reach.
DAVE KVAMME Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I could find my way home/ Where would I go?
RYAN ADAMS Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.' Matthew 18:20
BIBLE Where Matthew got his tag there was a zoo of hunters in the motorized areas. Where we were, we saw o...
RANDY NEWBERG For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant T...
ADRIAN BELEW I could drown in a frown and swim in a smile.
UNKNOWN Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
ARTHUR BAER I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Where deep and misty shadows float
In forest's depths is heard thy note.
Like a lost spirit, e...
MARIE LE BARON I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We nee...
MATTHEW RHYS It could have been where I had to do nothing and that would have been great.
BRENT MARTIN O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be...
SIR ARTHUR T. QUILLER-COUCH You'll get wet," Daisy protested, glancing at his shirtsleeves and waistcoat.
He began to laugh...
LISA KLEYPAS Her nerves, sated as they were, stirred beneath the caress of his fingertips. “Matthew…what will...
LISA KLEYPAS The elephant ear was great. I figured I'd bring (my girlfriend) down as a surprise and get an elepha...
CHRIS STEPHENS I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
FINN WITTROCK I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an...
JULIA QUINN I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
HERB CAEN Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goo...
OUIDA You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.
GARY SHTEYNGART Black as the night.
Black as the depths.
Black as your heart.
Where your hatred's at ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You can't camouflage a 75-foot elephant in a residential area. This issue affects every residential ...
BETH WHITE Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my ...
GRACE JONES A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant.
NICK HARKAWAY If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.
WENDY MASS Obviously there are a lot of questions and people would want to know where it would be. But it's too...
MELISSA MCHENRY Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust
KENNETH REXROTH Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
KENNETH REXROTH I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job ...
DEAN WINTERS So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challeng...
HENRY KRAVIS New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody woul...
BOB DYLAN After the initial bid from Wade was rejected, we decided we had three options. We could do another b...
BRIAN LONG Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Anybody who would read this letter from 20 years ago as an indication that he would overturn Roe v. ...
STEVE SCHMIDT Maybe it was serendipity to change from a monkey to an elephant. The elephant really seemed to stand...
JUDY HU This could cost higher education billions of dollars. There is a question on where the funds would c...
CASS CLIATT I can't say that it's inconceivable that a situation could arise where there would be... ... You hav...
HARRY EDWARDS An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is...
MARY BALOGH By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive in...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
NAN ARON I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade,
NAN ARON I would like to give that to Matthew as a gift.
JAMES LADIG An Englishman, / Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footste...
SUE MONK KIDD Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there.
"Still in the showers," said Fr...
J.K. ROWLING Love can take one over the clouds, out to space
And also to the depths of the Earth where you ...
LUNA MARYM It's a huge structure where cats and wildlife could hide.
JEFF ROSENTHAL From where they stood, they could see the castle.
FRANK YERBY If we could get to the point where we're the suppliers of the lettuce, that would be a great thing.
VALERIE ROBINSON There are scenarios where it would be a beneficial and acceptable tool, but there are also cases whe...
CHRISTOPHER CLARKE Wade can do so many things. And when O'Neal demands a double team, Wade can kill you. I don't think ...
BOB HILL Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
LAZARUS LONG An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
UNKNOWN Everyone would ask, 'Where are you going to school?' and I would say Belmont. They would say, 'Where...
BOOMER HERNDON It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an id...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
JACKIE KENNEDY A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they coul...
NELSON MANDELA Do you like that?” he whispered.
“Yes, I…” She fought to speak between helpless gasps....
LISA KLEYPAS Companionably he handed her a small glass filled with rich, plum-red liquid.
Receiving it with ...
LISA KLEYPAS She felt a pang of excitement as she realized it was not Mr. Hunt but Matthew Swift.
He rose fr...
LISA KLEYPAS I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never see...
LISA KLEYPAS I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never see...
LISA KLEYPAS Swift returned her scowl with an implacable glance. "Never do an enemy a small injury."
"Only y...
LISA KLEYPAS At the conclusion of the vows, despite Mercedes’s previous stern admonitions that the groom was LISA KLEYPAS Daisy pulled away from Swift’s grasp. “You’ve changed,” she said, trying to collect herself....
LISA KLEYPAS Why didn’t the others help you?” Daisy asked angrily, scrubbing the sleeve of her gown over her ...
LISA KLEYPAS Ironically,” she commented, “this will be the first time I’ve ever done anything to please my ...
LISA KLEYPAS I have to leave,” he whispered against her hair.
“No, stay.” Her face turned, her lips n...
LISA KLEYPAS By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair
PERSIAN PROVERB I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into ...
GROVER GLENN NORQUIST I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into ...
GEORGE W BUSH It's a political battle where, I think it was Henry Kissinger who once said, 'the fighting is so fie...
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like g...
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the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
- Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND