Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well, they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.[Jerry Bowyer] Quote:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.[Author Unknown] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. [Albert Einstein] Definitions of: tailDefinition: Limitation; abridgment.Definition: The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. Definition: Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin. Definition: Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part. Definition: A train or company of attendants; a retinue. Definition: The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression “heads or tails,” employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall. Definition: The distal tendon of a muscle. Definition: A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style. Definition: A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing. Definition: One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. Definition: A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. Definition: The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. Definition: Same as Tailing, 4. Definition: The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile. Definition: See Tailing, n., 5. Definition: the long visible stream of gases, ions, or dust particles extending from the head of a comet in the direction opposite to the sun. Definition: In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid. Definition: A tailed coat; a tail coat. Definition: In airplanes, an airfoil or group of airfoils used at the rear to confer stability. Definition: the buttocks. Definition: sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual intercourse; as, to get some tail; to find a piece of tail. See also tailing{3}. Definition: To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into. Definition: To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream. |
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