We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
SIR WALTER SCOTT We expect warming to cause more precipitation to fall as rain rather than snow. And snow will also s...
MICHAEL DETTINGER The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
WALTER SCOTT You can only melt the snow one flake at a time
RAYAN BLACK I do not expect all of the snow to melt before next weekend. Far from it.
BRAD DOYLE Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his p...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN I would like to see them say, 'Hey, Walter Forbes is clean. He is a good guy. He's got a decent idea...
DAVID BRADY We targeted the Llanelli line-out and it was especially pleasing to see Scott and Ally Kellock come ...
FRANK HADDEN Bid me to weep, and I will weep, / While I have eyes to see.
ROBERT HERRICK O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
To melt myself aw...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
BIBLE The portion of the road still covered with snow is on a north aspect and takes longer to melt off th...
BILL BLACKWELL Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
BIBLE This makes the potential for very high soil moisture levels come springtime with the snow melt.
GUY ASH I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot...
UNKNOWN We just wanted to play in the snow. We don't get much chance to see snow.
CRISTIAN LEON My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I ca...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Holy hotness. He is beautiful. I mean truly beu-ti-ful. Like the kind of beautiful they build statue...
REBECCA DONOVAN It is a massive opportunity for Scott and we cannot stand in his way. He will go down to train with ...
ANDY RITCHIE It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature c...
ERIC RIGNOT Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for ...
BUFFALO BILL Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in ...
ALAN COREN Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
DENIS DIDEROT Usually by this time we've had some runoff and we haven't had as much snow melt by mid-April as we u...
BRIAN SAUER There will be continued risk of landslides as the snow starts to melt in the spring and even more so...
JAMIE MCGOLDRICK We'll see snow break out around midnight. It will continue to snow through the morning hours (Monday...
BILL JACQUEMIN He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided...
JAMES DASHNER Obviously there will have to be operating cost dollars provided, because we wouldn't build them to s...
IRIS EVANS Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our min...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our min...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our m...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Some people build walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. No ...
FEMALE IMAGINATION Ambassador Young is now in a unique position to reach out to Wal-Mart and CEO Lee Scott and urge the...
PAUL BLANK Until midnight it was snowing heavily and we were out in turns removing snow from our temporary shed...
IMTIAZ HUSSAIN We're in good shape. The system's working everywhere it should. This is a wet storm, but there's not...
JEFF MCCRACKEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN It's a great system for helping students see how we connect genetics and biochemistry and use them t...
BRUCE MCCLURE When I got there, only two guys were in the cavern. I kept my skis on, and I was sitting on the snow...
JOHN MCGRATH I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ...
STEVE-O If the Arctic tundra and permafrost melt, we could expect to see major damage in those areas to home...
DUNCAN MCLAREN When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor...
PETER BRAND I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. You...
CHARLIE SHEEN Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER I used to build model airplanes with my brother. When we got tired of building them, we'd go up in t...
BILL MCAULIFFE Scott got out of his seat and full-on tackled the guy.
ALICIA MCCASLIN We've had much snow since December. The guys are looking at it as the first snow again so they're re...
NANCY WOOD He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Those who do not weep, do not see.
VICTOR HUGO The roof had heating elements in it because of the snow and ice build up, ... Rain and melted snow a...
DON GREEN And know this:
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
...
SARAH KAY We need Walter to feel real good. I always feel good when he feels good. I'm going to be careful wit...
MIKE HOLMGREN My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
BIBLE Snow White one, Snow White two,
Sorrow is coming out for you.
Snow White three, Snow White...
CAMERON JACE We'll see snow after midnight Friday, and then Saturday we'll have snow in the morning and midday.
ANDREW HUMPHREY It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will do very well f...
MARTIN ALLEN He's like a man-child. It's like a man playing against boys. He's capable of having those nights eve...
ARMANDO JOHNSON Scott looks forward to finding out who did this,
MARK GERAGOS Would it help,” he asked gently, “to have a shoulder to cry on?”
She fought to conceal h...
LISA KLEYPAS It's best to try and get it when the river's coming down a bit. When it's warm enough for the fish t...
ADAM GRANT The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just c...
ALEX WITCHEL This gives them a good platform to build on, but I don't think this is the last deal you'll see, ......
DIANA YATES HOPE VI isn't here just to build houses. It's here to build lives. The hope is, if construction is f...
DAN MOORE It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires givi...
BILLY CRYSTAL All in all, it's just a great experience to be out here and run with the best of them. We need to bu...
KYLE BUSCH There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if ...
LEN G. MURRAY I'd like to see them build a new operating system from the ground up that's much simpler and smaller...
MICHAEL CUSUMANO Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not att...
ROBERT HERRICK I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR Hi Walter, shout out if you are here - or maybe you shouldn't.
JOHN REID It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of ...
RYAN HOLIDAY We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy tha...
MOHAMMED OMAR Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no attempt by Walter Reed to hide the number of patients we receive.
ANN JOHNSON No other document was provided to Scott and we have been assured that Adm. Fargo will meet with Scot...
CHARLES GITTINS Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything...
ADAM LEVIN It's a way to appease my snow god. Every time I did them, it would snow for a week straight afterwar...
BRIAN TYLER Scott is definitely out and Nate will be a game-time decision.
JASON FITZSIMMONS Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prison...
REBECCA SOLNIT If I was in charge of the money to build sidewalks in Great Falls, I'd build them where I see paths ...
ANNIE TAYLOR We build all of our houses out of concrete blocks.
ELIZABETH HARRIS O Baba, they alone are known to weep and wail, who meet together and weep, chanting the Praises of t...
GURU NANAK They took a small town like Sullivan and put them on the map. Scott does such a great job. He probab...
DENNIS KOESTER I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa...
BARUCH SPINOZA I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive min...
MARK EPSTEIN If you were to go out and design and build them yourself, it would cost you many times that.
BRUCE KARATZ One of the agents who interviewed him said, 'How many kids are we talking about? The defendant, who ...
LAURA GUNN There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be qui...
AESOP There's not too many things you can do with them, once you collect them, other than melt them down.
BILL BOYNTON You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
THOMAS GRAY I though the key point in the game was Scott Andrews coming in first and third and Duke with a 2-1 l...
BILLY GODWIN We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We've got a load of snow out there.
LANCE MACKEY You can see the progress we are making under Walter and if we can match that work rate and spirit wi...
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Hold different courses.
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Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT