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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
assuming average bit good growth hold negative rebuilding
The post-drought rebuilding will hold back a bit of the growth and see agriculture still being a negative for 2005-06, but set us up for a very good 2006-07 - assuming average seasonal conditions, Justin Smirk
assuming convince form forward great power seek time understand
We're not going to put forward demands. We'll seek to convince them that now is the time to take responsible decisions. If you come to power and form a government, you must understand you are assuming a great responsibility.
assuming good news path pure transition
We were assuming a transition between IPv4 and pure IPv6. The good news is that there is also a transition path from NAT and RSIP to IPv6.
assuming ownership charming
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
assuming people start week willing
We're going to start pressing a lot of it this week ... assuming people are willing to talk.
assuming both elite face great match mount pleasant
We wrestled Mount Pleasant at Trinity's Elite Duals, but Zach and Donnie didn't face each other. It will be a great match ... assuming both make it to the final.
assuming assumption virtue
Assume a virtue if you have it not. William Shakespeare
assuming closer hoping negative results
We're concerned. As we get closer to 9/11, we may see -- assuming that we'll get negative results -- ... some hoaxes being played, ... We're hoping this is another one.
assuming root roots sam team watching
We're just going to be perched here in our La-Z-Boys and watching the game. I'm assuming Sam is going to root for the Steelers, but sometimes he roots for the other team just to get at me.
contempt heard held people president
Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
contempt department job learned running saw students worst younger
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
contempt word writer wrote
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
contempt destroy devout except held jews others people save sayings showing wished
There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished Robert Ingersoll
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
contempt control feeling hatred neither quite within
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
contempt father grew opinions speech
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
contempt deal gone longer obviously penalty phase serious strike work
If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.