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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
stupidity would-be fraud
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
stupidity mind demand
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. Alan Bradley
stupidity bed loud
I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot. David Sedaris
stupidity glorification
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. Carl Sagan
stupidity causes reputation
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. Kurt Vonnegut
stupidity profit made
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. David Ricardo
stupidity wickedness imbeciles
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. David Hume
stupidity opponents
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents. Barney Frank
stupidity latter workers
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. Bertolt Brecht
assurance kids respect won
The only assurance we have is, because we won our league, we would be in the NIT. All respect to the NIT, but that's not where these kids want to go. Mark Fox
assurance attended expedition fatal likely success york
As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. Lewis Hallam
assurance
What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up? Bill Watterson
assurance indians
We don't have any assurance that the Indians or the Pakistanis have such systems,
assurance born calm comfort either freedom gift god inner means serenity spirit war within
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart. Joseph B. Wirthlin
assurance both business circumstance customers fair folks gives pay seems similar
Simplifying rates, making folks who are in similar circumstances pay similar amounts, and doing it in such a way that it seems to be fair to both business and residential customers ... gives me assurance that it's the right thing to do. Tony Clark
assurance demand domestic figured foreign heard looked positive prices remains send supply
We heard very positive things from our domestic supply and the assurance on the foreign supply that everything looked good. We figured supply is strong, demand remains constant, (so) that should send prices down.
assurance book comic good hollywood knowing loves property published sold stamp took
Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk. David S. Goyer
assurance gain god spirit
Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children. Gordon B. Hinckley