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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
mediocrity genius birth
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities Cesare Lombroso
mediocrity culture defeat
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, Eddie McGuire
mediocrity century bureaucracy
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Benedict Cumberbatch
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity. Charles Lamb
mediocrity useless vapid
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov
mediocrity application superiority
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Baltasar Gracian
mediocrity individual sole
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. Boris Pasternak
mediocrity typical should
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. Bruce Henderson
mediocrity possession native
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Blaise Pascal
purpose hell christ
The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
purpose use language
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe
purpose assumption
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. David Kim
purpose kind
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
purpose slave
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. David Graeber
purpose trends advertising
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." Dave Barry
purpose growing lost
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
purpose miserable persons
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for. Charles L. Allen
purpose strange comedy
Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. Bo Burnham