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“Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.”

Men Said Two Hands Sleep Rooms Window Accounts Asking Hotel Guests Jumping Joints Hand In Hand Downtown Clerks Ritz

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”

People World Want Hands Simple Design Evolution Computer Mercy Knees Software Bows Fists Silicon Software Design Binary Computer Software

Author:Bill Gates

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.”

Feels Mind Firsts Hands Found Easy Sound Return Spring Ill Command Wheels Flaws Crowns Clay Vessel Hollow Potters Leaks Mould Pottery

Book:Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir

“And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.”

Hands Dying Blow Bless

Author:John Dryden

“But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.”

Mean Stills Hands Desire Sin Devil Ill Careful Biased Pimp

Author:John Dryden

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

World Two Sometimes Hands Faces Walks Flower Shadow Tricks Sickness Weed Ugliness Hand In Hand Tiptoes Shadow Of Death Health And Life

Author:Tiffany Baker

“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.”

Men Hands Government Decision He Man Limits Gun Decision Making Utopian Central Government

Author:Murray Rothbard

“The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.”

Thinking Years Hands Life Is Software Teens

Author:Bill Gates

“When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”

Ifs Trying Mind Made Ends Use Hands Imagine Materials Idols Offensive Raw Materials

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.”

Believe Hands Action Purpose Loss Behinds Greater Too Much Plans Sacrifice Divine Hands Of God Divine Purpose

Author:Neil Abramson

“Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.”

Hands Waiting Brain Power Arms Picks Fortune Ties Steel Powerless Fists Wrists

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.”

World Giving Heart Hard Whole Hands Waiting Objects Divine Fingers Spending Gods Will Shopping Machinery Benevolence Waiting For You Beneficence

Author:Bill Vaughan

“When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.”

Source: Democracy in America

“We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.”

Use Hands Values Breasts Diamond Commodity Harlots

Author:Karl Marx

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.”

Source: Marx: Selected Writings

“The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

Long Hands Process Function Productions Repeats Labour Capitalist Commodity Revenue Labourers

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”

Mean Long Hands Class Mouths Working Class

Book:Capital: The process of circulation of capital

Source: Capital: The process of circulation of capital

“As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .”

Way Hands Form Capitalist Revenue Variables

Book:Capital: a critique of political economy

Source: Capital: a critique of political economy

“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”

Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

“For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.”

Humans Heart Moments Hands Effort Grace Mankind Needed Mass Saving Steady Fidelity Saving Grace

Book:Notes on Life and Letters

Source: Notes on Life and Letters

“Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.”

Men Giving Hands Difficult Love Is Conflict Oneself Impulse

Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.”

Hands Walks Pockets Stolen Suspicious

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulthen, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.”

Men Book Hands Forget Pay Records Busy Dues Emptiness Pens Diaries Tedious Tolls

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.”

Men Stills Character Hands Christian Faces Church Grace Plans Honest Brave Cheerful Cant Trumpets Honest Man Loathing Pretence Grace Christian

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.”

Giving Hands Results Fate Nemesis

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.”

Life Hands Life Is Used Boxes

Book:Three Soldiers

Source: Three Soldiers

“I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.”

Ifs Giving Feels Said Hands Let Me

Author:Marge Piercy

“I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.”

Heart May Soul Moments Hands Left Christ Emotion Ready Highest And Love Filled Deeds Intellect Conception Rejoice Reign Benevolence

Author:Matthew Simpson

“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”

Should Hands Community Ability Objects Equal Raises Burden Debt Oppression Suits Operations Proportion Expenses Taxation Revenue Adapted

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

Want War Hands Cost India Affair Shakes Fists One Sided

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.”

Ifs Said Hard Body Hands Eye Girl Fighting Love You Strange Wicked Flats Wounded Publish True Things Tell Me You Love Me

Book:Across the River and Into the Trees

Source: Across the River and Into the Trees

“I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.”

Thinking Hands Flower London Graves Setting Settings Grass Sheets Worms Spiders Nero

Book:The South Country

Source: The South Country

“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.”

Hands My Own Feet Sweet Died Grieving Tied Thread Dove Weaving

Author:John Keats

“The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.”

Ifs Heart Hands Stars

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.”

Men Writing Play Hands Given Novel Grace Genius Criticism Critics Second Hand

Book:Language and Silence

Source: Language and Silence

“Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.”

World Book Hands Past Next Doors Wall Winter Guides Cycles Museums Chamber Butchers Munich Chamber Music Dachau

Author:George Steiner

“I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.”

Believe Hands Heard Remarks

Author:Tom Lehrer

“I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.”

Ifs Way Hands Kids Hurt Pay Dying Hundred Weak Cruelty If I Could Jackasses Pay It Forward

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.”

Ifs World I Can Hands Opportunity Effort Materials Directors Candle

Author:Daryl Hannah

“I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.”

Way Trying Hands Performances Excited My Way Live Performance

Author:Michael Stahl-David

“I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't help but think of the material as a director. You do come up with suggestions. You come up with shortcuts that you weren't aware of before. You try to be helpful to the director if he has a lot on his hands.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Helping Hands Actors Materials Directors Direct Come Up Helpful Suggestions Shortcuts Considerate

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.”

Littles Dream Hands Felt Sleep Cameras Fists Going To Sleep Drifting Drifting Off Vivid Dreams

Author:Sarah Silverman

“What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.”

People Hands Happens Used Clubs Lazy Unsympathetic Sleazy

Author:Steve Coogan

“There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.”

Knows Hands Dies Term Essentials Evidence Logic Absurd Command Equations Suppressing

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“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

“Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.”

Helping Hands Age Behinds Boys Blood Cry Cold Seasons Rounds Casts Warm Rage Accustomed Behind You Cursing Heathen Aghast

Book:Country Sentiment

Source: Country Sentiment

“Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.”

Ifs Matter Dream Hands Seems Lasts Turns Laughing Poet Fingers Hunger Mask

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”

Persons Ends Philosophy Hands Seems Guy Conversation Wave Cards Instance Bites Dense Playing Cards

Author:Anton Chekhov

“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”

Should Important Matter Character Hands Government Care Chance Opinion Depends Important Things Take Care Russia Philanthropy Treasury Leftovers

Author:Anton Chekhov