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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
thumbs-up decision roger
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass. Eddie Murphy
thumbs skeptical
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion. Ben Casnocha
thumbs littles faces
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. Arthur Baer
thumbs thumbprints different
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different. Bruce Schneier
thumbs zero
Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring! Vidya Balan
thumbs too-much
Too much under the thumb of the Iranians. Adam Schiff
thumbs-up giving roles
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. Adam Arkin
thumbs spots assault
Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge. Anne Sexton
thumbs-up giving humanity
Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway. Anne Heche
bones bring die hope moves pieces rapidly somewhere walk
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you. Louise Leakey
bones hillbilly deep-inside
We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside. Blake Shelton
bones
We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight. James Larkin
bones built stories
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past. Kate Forsyth
bones chord hear organ played vibrating
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track. Laurie Halse Anderson
bones standards sticking-out
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Alanis Morissette
bones fishes
In a shared fish, there are no bones. Democritus
bones dog small spectrum
Some asteroids look like small planets, not very disturbed, and at the other end of the spectrum are ones that look like iron-rich dog bones in space.
bones condition good help matter news people realize reverse stronger
Most people don't realize that osteoporosis and thinning bones are preventable. And, the good news is that no matter what the condition of your bones, there are things you can do to make them stronger and help reverse the condition.