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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
avalanches
You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels. David Gerrold
avalanches snowflake individual
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? Franz Wright
avalanches culture madness
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. Milan Kundera
avalanches needs snowflake
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. Jon Ronson
avalanches causes creation
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation? Victor Hugo
avalanches small-things
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. Vernor Vinge
enough-time needs forget
It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place Al Ries
enough-time looks enough
Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive. David Sedaris
enough good-enough shoulders
My health is good enough about the shoulders. Casey Stengel
enough coalitions broads
If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition. Bernice Johnson Reagon
enough-time helping plans
There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it? Elizabeth Banks
enough
Wanting to leave is enough. Cheryl Strayed
enough insulted kidnapped
It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too. Charlaine Harris
enough hundred
One's too many and a hundred's not enough. Billy Wilder
enough dialogue clout
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame. Bill Watterson