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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
eccentricity
Eccentricity is developed monomania. Bayard Taylor
eccentric ridiculous unexpected
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! Brandon Sanderson
eccentric
We don't know if someone is overtly friendly, an eccentric or a predator. Capt. Richter
eccentric figured people
I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'
eccentric movies musician painter time tried works
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room. Tony Kaye
eccentric funny gone jobs meeting plan saying teacher worker wrote york
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down. Adrian McKinty
eccentric imagination race though took unequal
. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. Fanny Burney
eccentric huge issue robert
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
eccentric freedom great maybe people wonderful
Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great! Sylvester McCoy
holding-on
The only thing holding us back is ourselves. Brad Henry
holding-on sometimes holding-back
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. Janis Joplin
holding-on
Even when you are not playing you are holding me back. Eugene Ormandy
holding-on sometimes
Sometimes holding on was all you could do. Kristin Hannah
holding-on interest evidence
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things. Jim Hodges
holding-on
Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on Thom Yorke
holding-on drag ifs
Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it. Tony Robbins