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hands knowing want
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. Carol Shields
hands forever slavery
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me. Carlos Castaneda
hands understanding guardian
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
hands want
I don't want to hold you hand! C. S. Lewis
hands i-can
I can clap with one hand. Aaron Tveit
hands law government
It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens. Alan K. Simpson
hands leader success-or-failure
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands. Alan Keyes
hands answers rochester
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester Charlotte Bronte
hands heaven gold
... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'
luxury people world
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! Agnetha Faltskog
luxury reality
The reality is, in most airports you don't have the luxury of that much space. Mark Hatfield
luxury matter world
Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. Carolina Herrera
luxury silence
Let us have the luxury of silence. Jane Austen
luxury tea delicacy
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury. Charles Lamb
luxury pages six
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that. Brian K. Vaughan
luxury gone world
I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be--cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,. Brad Pitt
luxury enjoyment foe
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal
luxury income should
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly. Calvin Trillin
poverty world wealth
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! Charles Dickens
poverty donation
Poverty isn’t solved with donations. Carlos Slim
poverty discovering american-poverty
One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
poverty suits rags
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
poverty
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
poverty dresses female
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
poverty sickness melancholy
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work Charles Baudelaire
poverty evening doe
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
poverty madness rich
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.