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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
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
lost-friendship sinister motive
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
lost
The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.
lost ability nations
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined. Alan Greenspan
lost left-behind behinds
And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by Chris Cornell
lost-friendship sides asphalt
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. Cale Yarborough
lost
When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning. David Castillo
lost price safety
When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver. Kyle Petty
lost said
You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness. Lewis Carroll
lost credibility virginity
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered. Charley Reese
open
We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.
opens sink sucked
As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.
opening-up people bigs
I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people. Bill Richardson
open people
We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.
open pop
We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas. Guy Ritchie
opening-up doors trying
When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment. Ed Helms
open stay
We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.
open trying
We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.
open remain theater whether
Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.
played taken
We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.
played stopped ways
We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.
played stood
We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.
played
We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.
played since team time
We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.
played teams
'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome. Neal McDonough
played
When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.
played proud starting
We're starting to come together. We played as a team, and I was very proud of them tonight.
played prepared time
We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.
pressure
There's always the pressure to make the movie good. Chris Carter
pressure surprise sometimes
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure. Chris Bosh
pressure start ton win worrying
We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.
pressure putting
We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.
pressure
Where there is pressure there is change, universally. Richard Hastings
pressure journalism kind
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on. David Remnick
pressure honest deadline
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one. Benicio Del Toro
pressure
Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves. Derek Hough
pressure firsts
Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny. Ari Graynor