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hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
credit hull moral
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. Alan Bennett
credit days puck saw skates speed today
The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't. Tim Ebner
credit free great injuries played suffered team
The other team played hard; they executed a great free kick. You have to give them credit. We suffered some injuries but you have to give the credit to the team that played well.
credit danger falling great histories people weakest
The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory environment.
credit great quite rhythm shut struggled
We struggled for rhythm the whole game. That's to their credit. We didn't play great but again, credit their defense. We had that one spurt, but they shut us down and we couldn't quite get over the hump.
credit finished goes good sign
We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team. Jay Wright
credit environment hit looking sorts strain
We're in an environment right now where there's a lot of strain in the profitability of credit cards, ... Issuers are looking to hit you with fees and those sorts of things.
credit guys halftime hitting sticking
We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.
credit domestic growth product
When you've got credit growth that already exceeds (gross domestic product growth), that's a lot of new credit." ()
able definitions want
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
able bodhisattva preaching
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
able indecision plans
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. Alan Rickman
able wonderful goodness
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. Aiden Wilson Tozer
able overcoming realizing
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it. Dave Chappelle
able imagine subtle
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. Carl Sagan
able privilege speak
I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak. Bryan Singer
able should factories
We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive. Carl Icahn
able being-there enjoy
I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there. Bobby Cannavale