There are, after all, fortunate souls who hear everything, but only know how to listen to what is good for them, and Stowey was, as things go, a fortunate man.

Without math the men who are continually seeking the causes of and the reasons for the many things that make the world go 'round would not have any means of analyzing, standardizing, and communicating the things they discover and learn.

And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

When he had finished with that, he would go to another part of the hotel and say much the same things to someone else, most probably a busboy.

A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.

Together with her mother, both of them tense with worry lest things should somehow go wrong.

They look out for deductions, or things that go wrong, such as a dropped stunt.

Inductive inference is reasoning from the observed behaviour of objects to their behaviour when unobserved ; as Hume says, it is a question of how things behave when they go " beyond the present testimony of the senses, and the records of our memory ".

In Australia, Trade is covered under Australian Treasury Guidelines for electronic commerce, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulates and offers advice on how to deal with businesses online, and offers specific advice on what happens if things go wrong.

Some factors that go into the material selection are cost, their ability to harden, their ability to withstand high pressures, hot abrasion, heat cracking, and other such things.

Bertha, wife of Joseph, ( caretakers of the castle ) tells Matilda of the " other wing ": " Now for goodness sake, dear madam, don't go no farther, for as sure as you are alive, here the ghosts live, for Joseph says he often sees lights and hears strange things.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

Replicas of real things in a smaller scale go back to prehistoric times, as small clay " dolls " and other children's toys have been found near known population areas.

There is something about a storyteller becoming rich and having a reasonably full private life that has a powerful potential to irritate so that, when things go wrong, it causes a very special kind of joy.

Jacob wanted to know how things were doing, so he asked Joseph to go down there and return with a report.

Three days later, Ribbentrop attempted to meet with Hitler, only to be told to go away as Hitler had more important things to do.

Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are going wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.

Von Trier's next feature film was a horror movie, Antichrist, about " a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage ; but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse ".

Freyja replies that Loki is lying, that he just wants to " yelp about wicked things " that gods and goddesses are furious with him, and that he will go home thwarted.

When Miles comes to rescue them, things go badly wrong.

It was at this point, just as the war seemed decided in the allies ' favour, that things started to go wrong.

-- Is this, perhaps, one of the things that is wrong with our country??

I would hope that we could create the recognition in the Department and overseas that those who come across little things going wrong have the responsibility for bringing these to the attention of those who can do something about them.

If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.

Something is wrong when these things happen.

Drivers operate in a highly privileged environment and can cause disaster if they get things wrong.

Pedro was introduced as a villain in the first show and was teamed up with Fernando by the second show, so someone to talk to, to plan with, to blame when things went wrong as they always did.

He would do things like tell jokes the wrong way around and switch punch lines.

He removes the human sense of justice from his concept of God ; i. e., humanity is not the image of God: " To God all things are fair and good and just, but people hold some things wrong and some right.

Adler believed that, if theology and religion are living things, there is nothing intrinsically wrong about efforts to modernize them.

In a guarded response, she echoed his words, admitting that " things went horribly wrong ".

* Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull publish their book The Peter Principle: why things always go wrong in New York.

The same things were anathema to Alf-and indicative of everything that was wrong with the younger generation and the liberal attitudes they embraced.

Wales has reservations about the new policy, fearing that the " wrong Jews " will be hired and ruin things for the few Jews working there now.

Defenders of traditions and faiths from claims that they are irrationalist for ignoring or even attempting to forbid reason and argument concerning some subjects, typically maintain that there is no real conflict with reason, because reason itself is not enough to explain such things as the origins of the universe, or right and wrong, and so reason can and should be complemented by other sources of knowledge, or in other words first principles.

The details of such a life can be observed in the Gospels, especially the historically renowned Sermon on the mount, where forgiving those who do wrong things against oneself is advocated among other pious precepts.

Stapp replied that it was because they always took Murphy's Law under consideration ; he then summarized the law and said that in general, it meant that it was important to consider all the possibilities ( possible things that could go wrong ) before doing a test and act to counter them.

Water, air, fruit, poetry, music, the human form -- these things are important to Persians, and they experience them with an intense and discriminating awareness.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

Here in an evening Persians enjoy many of the things which are important to them: poetry, water, the moon, a beautiful face.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.

It assumes that things are as they seem when they seem best, and when they seem worst it overlooks them.

I think you are being unfair to take these things up now.

We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;

There are few things of which I am prouder than of that unblemished record.

Perhaps the moralities of world law are not advanced by stealing American diplomatic papers and planes, but the Kennedy administration can always file a demurrer to the effect that, but for its own incompetence in protecting American interests, these things would not happen.

I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.

Procreation, expansion, proliferation -- these are the laws of living things, with the penalty for not obeying them the ultimate in punishments: oblivion.

One need not waver in his belief in virile law enforcement to insist that there are other things in American life which are also of great importance, and to which even law enforcement must accommodate itself.

There are, nevertheless, several things that the president can do to stimulate participation and to enhance the prestige of those who are willing to exercise their privilege.

Either a nervous dog because you are livid with rage -- a sure sign that you are taking things too seriously and had better stop!!