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“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”

Want Writing Children Hands Able School Parent Study Special Demand Tests Ears My Children Shakes Statistics Contracts Public School Accounting Calculus Preps Special Education

Author:Amity Shlaes

“See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.”

Thinking Feels Hands Eye Ears Nerves Eyes Of Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd-- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.”

Knows Men World Heart Mean Feelings Hands Eye Lying Lost Voice Hours Sun Clear Shots Flow Ears Beloved Tone Breasts Our World Inward Breeze Pulse Meadows Bolts Caress Jaded Glare

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes.”

Men Hands Eye Forget Arms Rain Ears Clean Track Legs Woods Wounds His Eyes Ache Exit Entrances Blinded

Book:Collected Poems, 1959

Source: Collected Poems, 1959

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.”

Men Hands Moving Form Christ Hours White Darkness Flower Holy Fairs Ears Lips Dear Warrior Hills Fairy Thread Lamps Entrances Chained Shrines Expired

Book:Madonna's child [a poem].

Source: Madonna's child [a poem].

“Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.”

Should Doe Hands Might Desire Song Fall Strong Sky Bears Ears Ancient Tall Spheres Bores Packs Atlas

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

Ifs May Hands Political Politics Cry Arms Battle Ears Surprise Welcome Reach Out Umpires Receptive Battle Cry

Author:Che Guevara

“I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.”

Want Trying Made I Can Reason Play Hands Guy Bits Sound Heard Strange Please Picks Ears Guitar Made It Shakes Steel Bottlenecks Trill

Author:B. B. King

“God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.”

Humans Looks Persons Whole Hands Eye Doctors Ears Medicine Patient Treated Health Care Noses Bless Throat Physicians God Bless Whole Person Subtext

Author:Anna Quindlen

“From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.”

World Children Self Moments Hands Eye Energy Growth Listening Ears Individuality Muscles Reaching Urges Reach Out Vitality Innate Moments Of Life Listening Ear

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.”

Mind Heart Kind Hands Eye Speak Strong Arms Ears Lifetime Tongue Gentle Speak Softly Strong Hands

Author:Javan

“I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

Knows May Long Has Beens I Can War Hands Faces Fighting Sleep Know How Danger Ears Remains Soldier Civil War Nurse Compelled Nursing Never Fear

Author:Clara Barton

“Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.”

Hands Eye Secret Letters Ears Temptation Purses

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.”

Hands Eye Novel Ears Familiar Bored Unexpected Lazy Laziness Repetition Shocked Crave Impatient Sloth Lazy Eyes

Author:W. H. Auden

“Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.”

Years Hands Bigs Arms Listening Ears Climbs Concentration Speakers Deliberate Wireless Sofas

Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.”

Hands Sound Minutes Musician Reflection Ears Woods Impression Spots Bored Visuals Endeavor Concerts Sequence Diligent Fiddle

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.”

Mind Soul Self God Hands Eye Race Feet Source Ears Infinite Supreme Sage Everlasting Castes Source Of Life Deathless

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

“For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.”

Years Mind Hands Motivational Able Mother Next Sleep Race Feet Worship Ears India Rounds Disappear Vain Awake Fifty Great Mother

Book:Vivekananda Reader

Source: Vivekananda Reader

“God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.”

Heart Hands Spiritual Prayer Cases Praying Ears Hunger Hungry Gods Will Spiritual Hunger

Author:Thomas Watson

“Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.”

Heart Soul Hands Prayer Praying Ears Delight Deny

Book:The Godly Man's Picture

Source: The Godly Man's Picture

“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.”

Knows Want Needs Writing Hands Eye Names Ability Knowing Color Please Ears Physics Painter Landscape Gestures Rhetoric

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."”

Firsts Hands Eye Garden Ears Crowds Accidents Rings Compliment Tigers Gimmicks Hands Up Infringement

Author:Hulk Hogan

“We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.”

Men Mind Hands Eye Ears

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“And since the mind is of a man one part, Which in one fixed place remains, like ears, And eyes, and every sense which pilots life; And just as hand, or eye, or nose, apart, Severed from us, can neither feel nor be, But in the least of time is left to rot, Thus mind alone can never be, without The body and the man himself, which seems, As 'twere the vessel of the same- or aught Whate'er thou'lt feign as yet more closely joined: Since body cleaves to mind by surest bonds.”

Men Feels Mind Body Hands Seems Eye Left He Man Ears Remains Noses Fixed Pilots Vessel

Author:Lucretius

“To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.”

Giving Looks Hands Eye Running Voice Born Audience Laughing Cry Color Brother Wind Hair Ears Praise Notes Legs Range Tone My Brother My Sister Smooth Damp Praise God Thank You God Daffodil

Book:DAYBREAK

Source: DAYBREAK

“I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.”

Ifs Thinking Way Shows Hands Faces Certain Hate Magic Fronts Ears I Hate Wave Tricks Quarters Impressed Show Business Magician Wizards Fooled

Author:Greg Behrendt

“Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He'll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That's why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.”

Thinking Men Way Giving Humans Looks Kind Two Hands Eye Courses Dog Birth Creatures Mouths Cat Ears Legs Noses Cows Monkeys Two Hands

Author:Chris Oyakhilome

“The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.”

Mean Moments Hands Happens Eye Able Earth Jesus Prayer Rooms Powerful Feet Praying Ears Most Powerful Waking Hands And Feet

Author:Brennan Manning

“If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.”

Ifs Heart Hands Bigs Grows Teaching Taught Members Ears Tiny Pastor Tiny Hands

Author:Rick Warren

“When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.”

Ifs Way Humans Hands Bigs Powerful Wonder Produce Shots Tools Ears Ill Boxes Various Debate Code What If Dna True Nature Cracked Biologist Pandora Chimera Pandora's Box

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Come here and take off your clothes and with them every single worry you have ever carried. My fingertips on your back will be the last thing you will feel before sleeping and the sound of my smile will be the alarm clock to you morning ears. Come here and take off your clothes and with them the weight of every yesterday that snuck atop your shoulders and declared them home. My whispers will be the soundtrack to your secret dreams and my hand the anchor to the life you will open your eyes to. Come here and take off your clothes.”

Source: Chasers of the Light

“We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.”

Source: Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.”

Men Hands Sound Cutting Air Cry Painting Horror Creatures Mouths Ears Despite Bridges Isolation Covered Scream Echoes Oppressed Torment Twisted Ripple Howl Pears Inverted

Book:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.”

Thinking Want Needs Long Ideas Shows Hands Spirit Girl Evil Blood Please Beats Angel Skins Ears Bones Flesh Demon Desperate Chests Zombie Craving Flesh And Blood Evil Spirits Skin And Bones

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

Men May Hands Men And Women Ears Lips Better Than You Leaves Of Grass

Author:Walt Whitman

“It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”

Littles Hands Girl Courses Dark Saws Minutes Hair Fit Ears Lips Tiny Petals Dark Hair

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.”

World Years Stills Hands Eye Memories Fire Ears Miracle Woods Warm Dry Visible Feds Old Memories Daily Miracles

Book:Novellas and Other Writings

Source: Novellas and Other Writings

“Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?”

World Two Ends Hands Eye Tomorrow Ears Another Day

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an ear…dipping down and ﬁnding the long waves that ﬂowed from the animal’s broad, strong chest. Not that any of that meant he was keeping the the animal, of course. It just felt nice, was all.”

Long Hands Bigs Courses Found Strong Felt Animal Nice Dog Ears Down And Wave Broads Chests Brotherhood Fur Big Heads

Book:Lover Avenged: Number 7 in series

Source: Lover Avenged: Number 7 in series

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart I Can Hands Eye Names Brain Break Fire Seeing Blood Feet Arms Goes On My Heart Beats Mouths Ears Hearing My Way Swear Seals Break Off

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.”

Trying Heart Hands Loses Cases My Heart Kissing Ears

Book:The Time Traveler’s Wife

Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife

“You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)”

Hands Faces Night Fall Walks Air Cry Baby Praying Skins Ears Presses Lays Calm Blow Moonlight Ribs

Author:Joyce Maynard

“My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.”

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.”

Way Looks Hands Eye Air Strange Baby Mountain Laughter Ears Musical Clouds Flying Lifts Look Up Roof Wipe Caps Skirts Baskets Ankles Swirls New Eyes Aprons

Author:Patricia McCormick

“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

“Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.”

Said Hands Faces Used Language Sides Loses Saws Middle Car Ears Distance Fingers Warm Cute Hats Thumbs Shiver Middle Finger

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.”

Hands Eye Faces Young Felt Cry Kings Walking Ears Shining Worthy Warrior Grass His Eyes Lions Stable Jewels Solemn Bonfire Walking Forward Almost Love

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VII: The Last Battle

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VII: The Last Battle

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