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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.
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!
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.
woods walks
Music’s a wood you walk through. David Mitchell
woods wilderness
Come to the woods, for here is rest. John Muir
woods betrayed guillotine
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine Baroness Orczy
woods american-education-system secretary
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Dennis Miller
woods fields scripture
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields. Bernard of Clairvaux
woods flood command
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. Charles Churchill
woods hello elijah
Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser! Elijah Wood
woods way wilderness
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. Cheryl Strayed
woods mistaken elijah
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. Daniel Radcliffe
clay confident courts feeling forward hard looking matches next playing until year
Until now I wasn't used to playing on hard courts, ... We don't have courts like this in Romania, we only have clay courts, and I don't know, this year I've started to play better and better on this kind of court, so I am feeling confident now and I am looking forward for the next matches and also for the US Open. Victor Hanescu
clay dirty gotta paint rough
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. Tamara Feldman
clay creation building
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. Bruce Lee
clay family struck
I thought that really struck home, especially with the Clay family being there for the speech. Jon Porter
clay dough hunk piles water
I get them up and do things with water pistols, PVC piles with a hunk of clay or play dough in it to be arteriosclerosis and things like that, Bob Burns
clay fight fortunate tough
He got it, man, ... Clay understands the music. I've been fortunate in my career. But it's a tough fight out there by yourself. Nat Cole
clay men though
Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
clay poking
I was out poking around about another job, and Clay come in.
clay county fairly full goal regional summer water
I anticipated we'd have had it done in November. But it will be fairly soon. Our goal is to have full water service, with Clay County Regional Water by the summer months.