I Quotes
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“In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn’t matter how famous
or how capable you are.”
“In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!”
“In the hands of a cruel person, honesty can be a lethal weapon.”
“In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”
“In the hands of a gifted woman, great things happen.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“In the hands of a good dancer, love was not just about simpering femininity. It always seemed to suggest something more. There was the hint of a human condition too unnamable to be told except through the language of archetype.”
Source: Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
“In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.”
“In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.”
“In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.”
Source: Anarchism; from theory to practice
“In the hands of a poet all topics weigh the same.”
Source: Prosopography In Blue
“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
Source: Up from Liberalism
“In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.”
“In the hands of corrupt citizens democracy gives rise to a corrupt nation.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“In the hands of fiends, guns will kill you. In your hands, they protect against such fiends.”
“IN THE HANDS OF MAN
He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to convert it to happiness.
He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.
He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.
Any problems created by the left hand of man,
Can also be solved with the right,
For he who manifests anything,
Also has the ability to
Destroy it.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“IN THE HANDS OF MAN
He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness.
He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.
He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.
Any problems created by the left hand of man,
Can also be solved with the right,
For he who manifests anything,
Also has the ability to
Destroy it.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.”
Source: Lecture on the Pendulum-experiments at Harton Pit: Delivered in the Central Hall, South Shields, October 24, 1854
“In the hands of skilled educators, transformative teaching is a catalyst for personal growth, resilience, and self-discovery in students.”
“In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.”
“In the hands of the Mighty God are many possibilities and victories. Do not lose hope in rough seasons. He can still ensure your victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.”
Source: Euripides
“In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.”
“In the hardest winter the roots are sill alive in the frozen ground.”
Source: England's Antiphon
“In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.”
“In the harmonious synthesis of the opposite ends of the river, flows the stream of happiness.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“In the harmony of the mountain where time bends, every thought stretches out, every worry unfolds.”
Source: Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow
“In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
“In the harsh veracity of the real world, he was rich, successful, and one of the most desired bachelors in New York—and I was, well, me. A world I hoped wouldn’t tear us apart by pointing out just how different our lives were.
“You’re probably eager to get home,” Jett whispered in my ear so the flight attendant serving coffee wouldn’t hear us, “but will you stay with me one more night? I’m not quite ready to let this go.”
Source: Surrender Your Love
“In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.”
“In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.”
Source: A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches: 2007
“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“In the haze of longing, a bittersweet twist,
I never fathomed love's smoky eclipse,
A day arrived, an unexpected shift,
Kissing cigarette's filter, not your lips.”
“In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the collar and streaks of golden hair falling into his eyes, like some Regency buck after a long night's dancing.”
Source: The Likeness
“In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming.”
“In the heart!' exclaimed Margarita, for some reason putting her hand to her own heart. 'In the heart!' she repeated in a hollow voice,”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“In the heart of a human being,
emptiness becomes love.
When we touch that Source,
instantly the love is present.
Literally, the divine becomes human
and the human becomes divine.”
“In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?”
“In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.”
“In the heart of every beaten child is planted a seed of self-destruction; in that rank dirt they must never let an evil flower bloom.”
Source: We Wrestle Silently : Quotes for the Warrior's Soul
“In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession may be stronger by reason of his passage through its ranks, and that he may leave the law itself a better instrument of human justice than he found it.”
“In the heart of every storm lies the resilience of the human spirit, forged by the tempests of life’s trials.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.”
“In the heart of our deepest struggles lies the brilliant light of our inner strength, unyielding and luminous. May this eternal beacon guide you through the shadows of Akathisia, illuminating the path towards resilience, hope, and indomitable courage. For it is not the scale of our challenges that shapes us, but the depth of our bravery. Remember, within every trial lies the opportunity to reveal our most authentic selves.”
“In the heart of the desert, your roof is your shield. At Roofing Contractor Phoenix, we make sure it's built to last."
– Roofing Contractor Phoenix”
“In the heart of the God of the universe, each child of his is as necessary to him as the fingers are to the hand.-In the marvelous design of the universe, not even a sparrow can fall to earth meaninglessly.”
“In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.”
“In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.”
“In the heart of this moment is eternity”