#pair

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#best #confirmation #first #get #gift

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. ↗

— William Labov

#different #focus #often #other #pairs

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comes #computer #fame #faster #guy

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ↗

— John Bunyan

#castle #despair #doubting #giant #owner

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#never #work #you

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. ↗

— Avi Arad

#clean #clean up #despair #get #i

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #best #century #congress #despair

I do have a lucky pair of underwear. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#i do #lucky #pair #underwear

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. ↗

— Albert Camus

#despair #drives #eternity #glimpse #like

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#another #consists #despairing #grandeur #hoping