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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
necks
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck. David Mitchell
necks paralyzed
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up Charles Krauthammer
necks throat
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. Djuna Barnes
necks praise critics
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. Eli Wallach
necks break holes
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. Austin O'Malley
necks stones possession
Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck. Albert Einstein
necks legs i-can
I can wrap my legs around my neck. Janice Dickinson
necks nails satan
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. C. S. Lewis
necks classic broke
I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead. Brooke Burns
twists film contemporary
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. Bill Paxton
twists peculiar ifs
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. Dean Koontz
twists
Everything is nothing, with a twist. Kurt Vonnegut
twists lines straight-lines
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. Giambattista Vico
twists looks fluidity
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending. Martin Amis
twists knots i-can
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. Rachel Gibson
twists males menopause
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause Julie Burchill
twists made turns
I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made. Juliette Lewis
twists obsessed
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist. Laurieann Gibson