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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.
going-away
There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it. Alan Watts
going-away months vancouver
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. Bryan Adams
going-away important speak
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. Edward Gorey
going-away important facts
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.
going-away use fool
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it. Bill Vaughan
going-away attention pay
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to. Antonya Nelson
going-away horror
It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away. Bruce Campbell
going-away band should
If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place. Eddie Vedder
going-away debt interest
A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away. Dave Ramsey
suitcases slam managers
I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase. Bob Uecker
suitcases instance
I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances. Brad Goreski
suitcases tempo ifs
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it. Daniel Barenboim
suitcases life-is moments
For life is holy and every moment is precious. Jack Kerouac
suitcases
I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so. Melanie Fiona
suitcases tape desperate
And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. Mitch Albom