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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
insulting insult easy
It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money. Al Alvarez
insults-you insulted ifs
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted. Juvenal
insulted robinson skip somebody trying
Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. Tom Waits
insult-to-injury add casts
The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast. Demetri Martin
insulting sit
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. Asghar Farhadi
insulting care may
If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. Amy Poehler
insulted scientists
Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
insulting perhaps personally sold taxpayers
Perhaps the taxpayers should also take it as personally insulting when they are being sold out.
insult offered popularity
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler. Oscar Wilde
firm overhead pay placement tough
We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.
firm left newspaper shame sound stand standing view
We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there was arbitration, and only one newspaper left standing after all of this sound and fury.
firm stand-firm
Stand firm, don't flutter! Benjamin Franklin
firm four looks next six sooner weeks
We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be some firm announcements of where we'll land.
firm
For who so firm that cannot be seduced? William Shakespeare
firm
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver. Kevin Mitnick
firm love women
I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women. Kenny Chesney
firm learned past practices regret stronger subject tax
We regret the past tax practices that were the subject of the investigation. KPMG is a better and stronger firm today, having learned much from this experience.
firm intervene political position remain remained shall stand united
We have remained firm in our position that we shall remain united in this stand not to intervene in any of the political undertakings,