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—Your sweetness intimidates.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send out letters full of misspellings, so too we might have to 'watch our language.' It is odd that the request for unbiased language in schools and workplaces is considered intolerable when other limits on our freedom to do whatever we want are not.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine.

Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.

Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out.

A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.