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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
veils
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. Aiden Wilson Tozer
veils again-and-again versions
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong. David Icke
veils arms opinion
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him. David Hume
veils faces eternity
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! Alexander Smith
veils spirituality hiding
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Alfred Nobel
veils events moments
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. Elie Wiesel
veils littles infinity
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile. Conor McPherson
veils rich myth
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. C. S. Lewis
veils confession secrecy
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. Bill Vaughan
telling-the-truth mood foul
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
telling-the-truth caution
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. Baltasar Gracian
telling-the-truth realism socialist
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
telling-the-truth heart-is-a-lonely-hunter can-do
All we can do is go around telling the truth. Carson McCullers
telling-the-truth revolutionary truth-is
Telling the truth is always revolutionary Antonio Gramsci
telling-the-truth revolutionary truth-is
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
telling-the-truth
He who tells the truth says almost nothing. Antonio Porchia
telling-the-truth
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth Clive Barker
telling-the-truth young not-afraid
The young are not afraid of telling the truth. Anne Frank