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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
domestic-violence causes pregnant-women
Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death. Lois Capps
domestic-violence finals patterns
I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship. Leslie Morgan Steiner
domestic-violence violence serpent
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them! Lewis Carroll
domestic-violence trying situation
The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation. Julie Johnston
domestic-violence secret prison
The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release. Joyce Meyer
domestic-violence violence
There's no such thing as "just a domestic". Patrick Stewart
domestic-violence demand persons
They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them. Jodi Picoult
domestic-violence alive might
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive. Gloria Steinem
domestic-violence assault difficult
Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway. Mariska Hargitay
assault cases last predator several sexual
We actually got several of the sexual predator and sexual assault cases down in Provo last week. James Thompson
assault-weapons people use
...the only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers... Charles Schumer
assaulted country government people saying
There are people in this country who have been killed, raped and assaulted and we're saying the government must take responsibility, Morgan Tsvangirai
assaulted close death fear learned life scared
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death. Lara Logan
assault baltimore either involves trial
If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.
assaulted demands relationship
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another. Tullian Tchividjian
assault brutal freedom press seen violent
What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom.
assault becomes community connected darfur family happens human humanity tied worth
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about. Wole Soyinka
assaulted built metaphor vietnam war
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Karl Marlantes