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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.
insanity mind states
Insanity is just a state of mind. Alan Alda
insanity unity love-each-other
Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other. Chris Brown
insanity world central-banks
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world. David Stockman
insanity genius form
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. Cesare Lombroso
insanity goes-on vandalism
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. Kurt Vonnegut
insanity extremes knows
I don't know why I go to extremes. Billy Joel
insanity creepy shadow
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow. Deb Caletti
insanity different madness
The different sorts of madness are innumerable. Avicenna
insanity insane very-cool
If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity. Charlotte Bronte
demented
Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist. Bret Easton Ellis
demented like-me
Pretty and demented at the same time, like me. Billie Joe Armstrong
demented fearful form potential silhouette solitary strain visible
The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential. Kathryn Hulme