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• We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Heart, Night, Gentleman

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications for election to the House of Commons or appointment to the Senate, but maybe it will have to come to this as a price we must pay for equality of the two great language groups of our founding fathers.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Father, Government, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 7, (p. 134), 1969.

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• In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

  George Washington

  Character, Government, Office

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.78

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• I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from 1991 and look at all the names and appointments and things that, at the time, seemed so important. Meetings that I was really worried about, things that I was getting calls four times a day about, and I wonder, "Where did it all go? Where are they now?" It's so strange, everything has disappeared. The only thing that stays behind is the work.

  Michael Bierut

  Names, Important, Looks

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• I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

  Isak Dinesen

  Elephants, End Of The World, Forests

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged. There is no space for what wells up from the subconscious; those dreams and images live in deep still water and simply submerge when the day gets scattered.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Space, Water

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cities, Faces, Tribes

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Errands, Wonder

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• About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

  John Quincy Adams

  Office, President, Half

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• For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.

  Lucretius

  Real, Animal, Soul And Body

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, I. 113,

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• There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.

  Edna O'Brien

  Eye, Half, Landscape

  Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”

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• Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Fun, Communication, Mean

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• What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

  John Marshall

  Judging, Office, Independence

  John Marshall (2005). “The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall”, p.267, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• God is bigger than time,
  dates, and appointments.
  He wants you to move
  through this day with a quiet heart,
  an inward assurance that
  He is in control, a peaceful certainty
  that your life is in His hands,
  a deep trust in His plan and purposes,
  and a thankful disposition,
  toward all that He allows.
  He wants you to put your faith in Him,
  not in a timetable.
  He wants you to wait on Him
  and wait for Him.
  In His perfect way He will put everything
  together, see to every detail...
  arrange every circumstance...
  and order every step to bring
  to pass what He has for you.

  Roy Lessin

  Life, Trust, God

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• We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

  Jonathan Coe

  Drinking, Coffee, People

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• You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

  Mark Batterson

  Jobs, Miracle, Divine

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• Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

  Thayer David

  Couple, Dark, Shadow

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• I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Rome, Atheism

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• I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge, Robert H. Ferrell, Howard H. Quint (1979). “TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF”, Dissertations-G

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• Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Equal Pay, Should Have

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• ... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

  Bell Hooks

  Rights, Support, Black

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• A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

  Anna Brackett

  Book, Simple, Two

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• To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Breathing, Meditation

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• I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Lord, Ifs

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• Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.152, Moody Publishers

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