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“There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.”

Made Hands Married Cheated Chunks

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.”

People Knows Book Play Hands Acting Class Creative Taken Pieces Written Judgment Jokes Theatre Virgins Second Hand Acting Classes

Author:John Lahr

“God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.”

Body Hands Can Do Eternal Temporary Dominant Palms

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.”

Men Giving Hands Heaven Poor Sea Giving Up Judgment South Spread Aids Islands Sinner Toms Signals Dismayed

Book:The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life

Source: The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life

“It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.”

Should Believe Hands I Believe Miserable Wicked

Book:Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)

“The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.”

Ifs Mean Hands Fighting Enemy Victory Conquer Really Mean Laurels Bayonets

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.”

Hands Winning Gambling Hand In Hand

Author:Pete Rose

“State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.”

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

“Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.”

Way Persons Has Beens Said Hands Pain Suffering Enjoy Justice Pleasure Consequence Rewards Scripture Punishment Ignorant Judgement Strict

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.”

Men Heart Hands Virtue Feet My Heart Meat Stomach Belly Knots

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.”

Should Firsts Hands Together Gains Advantage Variety Conception Display Execution Disadvantages Harshness

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion.”

World Hands Suffering Passion Sin Feet Divine Bears Blessed Depth Mold Lambs Hands And Feet Lamb Of God

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talents, the world's wants, and stand ready to serve God now, in whatever He brings to your hand.”

World Way Want Mean God Hands Study Talent Ready Trials Providence Serving God Observers

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.”

Mean Hands Felt Cases Increase Explanation Motive Visible Consumption Unworthy Apprehension

Book:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…

Source: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…

“Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!”

Ifs Trying Hands Steps Shakes Tolerate Step Up

Author:Tom Lehrer

“It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.”

Men Wells Book Hands Might Beautiful Young Literature Pure Fingers Young Man Passages Spoil Jewelry Assassins Sparkle Caress

Author:Joseph Parker

“Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.”

Knows Men Believe Hands Spirit Dark Know How Mystery Tables Instruments Stranger Rap Redemption Boards Shakes Touched Saviour

Book:The New Zealander

Source: The New Zealander

“I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.”

Thinking Knows Believe Hands Views Thousand Regard Mere Lawyer Fees Wigs

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.”

Doe Hands Seems Easy Results Honesty Prison Stealing Secure Diets Garments Silk Satin

Book:The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister

“There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.”

Ifs Men Hands Would Be Space Doubt Feet Figures Red Constitution Dear Confusion Burned Centre Filling Glare Tinder

Author:Anthony Trollope

“As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.”

Men Giving Hands Cases Blow Clubs Pens Hammers Defence Often Is

Author:Anthony Trollope

“The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.”

Children Littles Hands Nectar Little Hands

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.”

Kind Use Hands Fruit Bitter Ripe Kind Words Ripe Fruit Bitter Words

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.”

Hands Certain Failing Strikes Ruins Cherish

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.”

Said Hands Saws Written Food Baby Tea Damn Chips Menus Damn Things Fish And Chips

Author:Arnold Wesker

“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.”

Kind Facts Hands Political Social Differences Rights Equal Possession Genuine Enormous Vulnerability Relative Hand In Hand Social Equality

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.”

Heart Two Hands Mother Father Bits Son Folks Contrary Broke

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.”

“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

Mean Hands Seems Desire Passion Wealth Poverty Humility Honor Demand Empty Riches Vanity Display Crave Obscurity Furious

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.”

Needs Mind Hands Prayer Raises Setting Settings Wander Irrelevant Raise Up Wandering Thoughts

Author:John Calvin

“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”

Hands Light Half Crosses Lonely Flying Greek Generous Uncertain

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.”

Hands Weapons Newspapers

Book:Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”

Men Giving Helping Hands Would Be Action Difficult Giving Up Dreamer Tempted

Author:Alfred Nobel

“As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.”

Children Moments Hands Fall Father Jesus Christ Hours Path Dangerous Cry Walking Destruction Believer Abyss Slippery

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.”

Hands Choices Conditions Workers Determine

Book:The American Federationist

Source: The American Federationist

“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.”

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.”

Littles Use Hands Spirit Understanding Progress Criticism Obstacles Conceit

Book:The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Two Ends Hands Parent Sound Black Four Taught The End Of The Day Pairs Frozen Skates Rumours Two Sisters

Author:Bobby Hull

“For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.”

Way Hands Earth Together Universe Produce Impression Ships Boards Floating Sailor Stationary Rotating

Book:Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

Source: Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

“Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.”

Writing Hands Seems Consciousness Communication Speech Remove Second Hand

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.”

Whole Hands Population Pursuit Endless Fulfillment Instant Gratification Instant Gratification

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.”

“Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.”

Should Hands Heaven Prayer Son Keys Praying Daughter Resources Boundless Reluctant Omnipotence Son And Daughter Treasured Daughter Of God

Book:Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV

Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV

“The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.”

Men Children Hands Law Parent Careers Rights Equal Males Financial Feminist Arguing Primaries Irony Assets Womb Equal Rights

Author:Warren Farrell

“Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this "marry the rapist" theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women's most enduring romance novels.”

Men Said Hands Romance Novel He Man Sweet Lovers Endure Theme Rejects Savages Romance Novel Sellers Best Sellers

Author:Warren Farrell

“It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.”

Source: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air