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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.
unseen alchemy dialogue
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. Cai Guo-Qiang
unseen pendulums poetry-is
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. Carl Sandburg
unseen accessories unforgettable
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory Coco Chanel
unseen glimpse appearance
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. Anaxagoras
unseen-things giving comforting
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. Helen Keller
unseen moral hope-and-faith
To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen. Marianne Williamson
unseen beauty-of-life higher
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. Oscar Wilde
unseen about-yourself conclusion
Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see. Guy Finley
unseen today enough
Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough. J. R. R. Tolkien
ifs
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. Alan Watts
ifs keep-going
If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow. Al Pacino
ifs can-do dies
If you intend to die, you can do anything. Chip Kidd
ifs-and perfect what-if
It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world. Darren Shan
ifs
If your words're true, they're armed. David Mitchell
ifs
Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work. David Sarnoff
ifs
If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it. David Puttnam
ifs
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. Catherine Booth
ifs
If you make history with God, He'll make history with you Bill Johnson