![My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-interests-drew-me-in-different-directions-on-the-one-hand-i-was-powerfully-at.jpg)
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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
facts may opinion
You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact .
facts embarrassing theft
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. David Graeber
facts economic globalization
Globalization is a fact of economic life Carlos Salinas de Gortari
facts sacred comment
Comment is free but facts are sacred. C. P. Scott
facts republican celebrate
Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
facts sometimes sometimes-in-life
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. Aidan Chambers
facts accused resent
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
facts investigation mark
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Bliss Carman
facts film more-money
Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. Bill Plympton
differentiation happens
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
different directors filmmaker
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. Alan Parker
different film should
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
different stage endure
Love goes through different stages. But it endures. Al Pacino
different
I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same. Chris Burke
different television lines
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. David Selby
different idlers
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. David Mitchell
different language spread
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. David Crystal
different jazz kind
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. David Sanborn