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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.
fortune-cookie plans
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all. Charles de Gaulle
fortune difficulty careful
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
fortune nations accidents
The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . . Edward Gibbon
fortune tricks
Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on. Belle Boyd
fortune good-fortune
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. Carlos Fuentes
fortune found gotten hanging meeting particular special
I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson. Thomas Middleditch
fortune family-values raised
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values. Dikembe Mutombo
fortune
We were contacted by 'Wheel of Fortune' to see if we wanted to be part of the program. William Atwood
fortune hostage
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps
behinds
What I leave behind has a life of its own. Audre Lorde
behinds consequence
Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it. Ernest Holmes
behinds
What is the why behind everything you do? Jack Canfield
behinds knows
You know, you can only lead them from behind. Nelson Mandela
behinds wrong-direction
Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction. George H. W. Bush
behinds knows
I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be. Patrick Ness
behinds
Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel. Seth Grahame-Smith
behinds
It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind Martin McDonagh
behinds
Behind one truth there is always yet another. Lloyd Alexander