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“To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.”

Men Humans Soul Facts Problem Body Hands Would Be Lying Found Individual Human Beings Answers Deals Identity Certainty Realms Human Soul Riddle Enigma Scientology Presumptuous

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.”

Hands Causes Produce Future Universal Spread Permanent Endeavor Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”

Children Hands Bigs Mother Order Strong Sun Gender Tenderness Womanhood Hand Holding

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.”

Thinking Feels Should Looks Hands Universe Realizing Pieces Connections Passing Passings Passing Through

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”

Heart Hands Curse Consent Matrimony

Book:Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author

Source: Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author

“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”

Men Heart Hands Lying Desire Easy Waiting Views Behinds Sick Sight Difficulty Salvation Clouds Possession Accomplishment Trust In God Presence Of God Afar Perplexity

Author:Owen Wilson

“On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.”

Knows Persons Hands Know How

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.”

World Hands Belief Love Is God Love Our Family Neighborhood Friendly Catholicism Sacraments God's Love Eucharist God Is Love Kernel God Is There

Author:Andrew Greeley

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Hands Time Speak Sun Paper Slave Ridiculous Circles Curse Silver Dictatorship Overrated Second Hand Knobs

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Hands Bigs Artist Next Ability Greatness Tests Pockets Coming Out Very Deep Soulless

Author:Lady Gaga

“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.”

People Ifs Way Giving Book Character Hands Running Turns Hours Novel Cutting Figures Willing Return Reader Pages Lays Errors Posts Online Copies Promoting Printed Edits Spine Output Return To Me

Author:Cory Doctorow

“The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.”

Soul Stories Hands Increase Crafts Guarantees

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.”

Hands Together Energy Meditation Preparation Breathing Deep Breath Mediation Hands Together Deep Breathing

Author:John Edward

“President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.”

Shows Humor Hands Funny Names Nations President United Support Speech Touching United Nations President Bush Assembly General Assembly

Author:Tina Fey

“There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.”

World Needs Doe Art Soul Hands Cities Art Is Difficulty Variety Permit Proliferation

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends States Hands Wanted Form Dark Rooms Blind Canvas Clay Blind Man Dark Room

Author:Philip Guston

“Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!”

People Needs Mean I Can Hands Reality Deals Minutes Slave

Author:Ben Harper

“On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.”

Said Matter Hands Emotion Subjects Objects Music Is Aim Musical Propositions Subject Matter

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”

Men World Hands Beautiful Film Moving Form Music Imagine Gun Rhythm Related Without Music Love Films Music Man

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.”

Giving Two Hands Two Hands

Book:Whiteman

Source: Whiteman

“To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.”

Book:Oath of Fealty

Source: Oath of Fealty

“Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.”

Men Hands Given Blood He Man Sacred Distinguished

Author:Guru Nanak

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

“Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?”

Ifs Should Hands Fire Burning Blacksmiths

Author:Alexander Theroux

“This was a brainchild of mine, to build a shop where you could walk up to everything and didn't feel like you had to keep your hands off. I wanted a shop that you could walk into and feel comfortable in, and I wanted women to feel comfortable in the shop as well.”

Feels Wells Hands Wanted Walks Mines Like You Comfort Comfortable Shops

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.”

People Hands Mines China Patriotism

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.”

People Hands Left Painting Mass Built Productions Scales Irrelevant Pyramids Cathedrals Nothing New Left Hand Mass Production

Author:Ai Weiwei

“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.”

Ifs Knows Should Humans Hands Design Species Human Society Human Species

Author:Frans de Waal

“When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.”

Men Want Feels Hands Poor Failing Hungry Nazi Begging Poor Man Want Him Eyesight

Author:George Stevens

“Someday will never come and take you by the hand.”

Hands Ability Someday

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.”

Sometimes Hands Spirit Sports Blood Flying Attacking Englishmen Tenacity Frenchmen Sportsman Lemonade Gaelic

Book:The Red Baron

Source: The Red Baron

“Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.”

Giving Hands Might Humanity Church Justice Poor Christianity Rich Balance Dignity Ultimate Weight Institutions Neighbor Exploits Loving God Cooperatives Balance Of Power

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!”

Heart States Hands Land Unions Unity Lakes Flags

Book:Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author

Source: Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author

“When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.”

Knows Hands Left Philanthropy Left Hand Alms Sermon On The Mount

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.”

Ifs States Hands Fighting United United States Military Direct Unions Soviet Soviet Union Confrontation

Author:Omar Bongo

“Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.”

Use Hands Moving Obsession Museums Canvas

Book:Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.”

“People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.”

People Ifs Way Said Humor Hands Would Be Funny Night Guy Praying Gun Knees Every Night Ufo Alabama Shotguns Abduction

Author:Bill Hicks

“I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.”

Thinking Knows Two Hands Kids Destiny Fate Happened Achieve Greatness Luck Heavy My Sister Metals Heavy Metal

Author:Eric Avery

“Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.”

Ends Hands Reality Moving Emotion Magic Effects Window Opening Uplifting Fleeting Slam Lingering Duh

Author:Yann Martel

“I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out.”

Way Hands Today Hair Stuck

Author:Clinton Portis

“Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.”

Art Hands Religious Class Objects Paper Instruments Sacred Touching Pencils Ceremony Art Class

Author:Joan Miro

“I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.”

Hands Eye My Own Mistake Silent

Author:Tom Folsom

“I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.”

Ifs Knows Hands Games Balls Boss Aggression Bowlers

Author:Brett Lee

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.”

Ifs World Way Believe Hands America Middle Percent Iraq Oil East Likes Controlled Middle East Reserves

Author:Saddam Hussein

“Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.”

Want Trying Body Hands Would Be Mad Fascinating Cosmic Snakes Creepy Robes Auras Gowns Medusa

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?”

Heart Feelings Hands Names Born Secret Divine Lips Flames Cheeks Celestial Crimson

Author:Abraham Coles

“I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.”

Body Hands Able Together Lost Left Bits Sides Hurt Cutting Doctors Skins Shoulders Knees Back Together Stitches

Author:Jens Voigt