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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.
silence argument weak
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. Alan Watts
silence answers critics
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Aiden Wilson Tozer
silence building crescendo
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence tragedy might
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence
No one nor anything can silence me. Dmitri Mendeleev
silence needs stories
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. Diane Setterfield
sitting done news
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. Ed Bradley
sitting scripts film
I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script. Deepa Mehta
sitting eating good-things
A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation. Daniel Handler
sitting
We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting. Paul Phillips
sitting folding chairs
I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up. Bill Murray
sitting cows tvs
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. Celia Cruz
sitting looks clock
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. Bill Gates
sitting shelves
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf. Brian Eno
sitting tickets watches
The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar Brian Lara