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hands voice storm
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands. Charles de Lint
hands world ifs
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Spurgeon
too-much fables labels
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables Charles Spurgeon
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. Djuna Barnes
too-much pebbles diamond
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. Bryce Courtenay
too-much week working-it
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
too-much taste littles
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much. William Shakespeare
too-much bears would-be
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. Bill Russell
too-much gin drank
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin. Edward Gorey
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. David Hockney
too-much young knows
I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death. Benazir Bhutto
might goes-on wells
We might as well die as to go on living like this. Charlie Chaplin
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others! Charles Stanley
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. Dave Barry