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ungrateful-people heart thinking
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents... Douglas Wilson
ungrateful-people long people
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
ungrateful-people tragedy favors
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
ungrateful-people doe ungrateful-person
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people. Publilius Syrus
ungrateful-people hands jamaica
I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot. Michael Lee-Chin
ungrateful-people scoundrels obligation
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. Philip James Bailey
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
jamaica water fool
In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty Bob Marley
jamaica my-family
My family were from Jamaica. Diane Abbott
jamaica two world
For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that — situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy — Jamaica has no reason to be poor, Edward Seaga
jamaica way violence
Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica. Damian Marley
jamaica people far-away
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot. Peter Blair Henry
jamaica easy
Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.
jamaica hip-hop united-states
Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing. Nas
jamaica bob tourists
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music. Michael Franti
jamaica issues race
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin. Tessanne Chin