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cast about

«We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.»
«Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us»
«He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.»
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
«And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: / And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cast about, cloth, fled
«So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cast about, Ishmael, Mizpah, returned
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
«My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.»
«But we do as we have always done: we take whatever is cast into us down into our depths -- for we are deep, we do not forget -- and once more grow clear. . . .»
«Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.»