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“To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.”

Ifs Hands Happiness Hate All Things Envy Miserable Resentment

Author:Fay Weldon

“It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.”

Writing Doe Matter Hands Masters Mark Paint Simplicity Statues

Author:Elsie de Wolfe

“Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.”

May Hands Action Hate Emotion Urges

Author:Alice Duer Miller

“We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.”

Trying Persons Self Hands Shakes

Book:The hog farm and friends

Source: The hog farm and friends

“Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.”

Hands Strong Prove Stones Thunder Grapes

Book:The works

Source: The works

“God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.”

Hands Voice Feet

Author:Teresa of Avila

“No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.”

Mean Ideas Hands Government Class Safe Republic

Author:Wendell Phillips

“[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.”

Want Should Hands Should Have Indecision Gravestone Indecisive

Author:Barbara Walters

“Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.”

Use Hands Law Husband Convinced Favors Exception Stations Magnanimity

Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

“Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”

Ifs Hands Fingers Nervous Dripping Icicles

Author:Fannie Hurst

“Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.”

“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.”

Way Mind I Can Hands Remember Form Artist Fashion Determined Mixtures Marble My Future Foresight Sculptors

Author:Freya Stark

“O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.”

Kind Sometimes Done Stories Hands Faces Left Sleep Forget Healing Tired Comforting Crave Bland Forget Me

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.”

Firsts Looks Kind Soul Hands Eye Turns Views Wonder Sea Land Taught Masters Genius Scene Skills Bounds Various Noble Passing Passings Sat His Eyes Seats Bores Globes Obedient Robes Wildness Wands

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.”

Hands Pleasure Virtue Youth Band Spring Flow Rose Spread Virtuous Crowns Perfume Carpet Pipe Harmonious Hand In Hand Vigor Mansions Velvet Gale Flora Shrubs Zephyr

Book:The Ghost

Source: The Ghost

“Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.”

Should Humans Soul Hands Forget Race Existence Darkness Magic Human Race Unhappiness Life Happiness Authorship Wands Benefactors Magic Wands

Author:Denis Diderot

“We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.”

Ifs Knows Mind Believe Hands Reality Universe Knowledge

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.”

Humans Body Hands Winning Human Beings Brain Wonderful Evolution Gun Electric Tickets Elephants Clay Lottery Razors One Direction Pigeons Wireless Hares Adaptable

Author:Beryl Markham

“the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.”

Men Mind Hands Sun Dispassionate

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.”

Children Hands Seems Left Deals Trouble Particular Difficulty Manage Goodwill

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.”

Hands Silence Audience Thousand Sitting Twenties

Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.”

Hard Hands Conscience Sinner Laborers

Author:Anne Bradstreet

“A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.”

Hands Feds Bullying Bully

Author:Edna Ferber

“Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.”

Should Made Ends Reason Hands Easy Sin Behinds Feet Fit Sorrow Eternity Corruption Temples Repentance Passages Confession Foul Pilgrimage Profane Heathen

Book:The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

“My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.”

Mean Hands Football Dad My Dad Nfl

Author:Adrian Peterson

“He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.”

Knows Hands Games Winning Bears Empty Noise Nfl Jealous Eagles Tin Tin Cans

Author:Mike Ditka

“The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.”

Men Said Two Helping Hands Religion Names Can Do Church Teaching Please Luck Chiefs Almighty Indifferent Hands Of God

Book:The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan

“The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.”

Source: History as Literature and Other Essays

“Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.”

Way Feels Trying Persons Has Beens Moments Shows Body Hands Order My Own Taken Connections Photographer Snapshots

Author:Richard Avedon

“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”

Hands Perception Photography Photographer Allowing Second Hand

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.”

Needs Looks Hands Nice Fans News Cameras Photographer Photograph Average Pollyanna

Author:Weegee

“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”

Hands Three Hours Raised Lied Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.”

People Ifs Hands Government Able Individual Information Policy Objects Safe Foreign Policy Nsa Government Policy Classified Information

Author:Barack Obama

“A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.”

Hands Food Cooking Dinner Shakes Culinary Thick Soup

Book:John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie

Source: John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie

“Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.”

Firsts Use Hands Would Be Order Food Mouths Cooking Clean Fingers Careful Dirty Decent Culinary Be Careful Plates Dishes Etiquette Jackets Breach

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Hands Food Mouths Cooking Glasses Shoulders Culinary Too Short Elbows

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.”

Writing Moments Hands Pleasure Talking Food Fine Mouths Cooking Culinary Throat Delicious Strawberries Nectarines

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Hands Moving Know How Food Cooking Cooks Repeats Culinary Craftsman Good Cook

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Said Hands House Stuff Challenges Cutting Feet Photograph Edges Artistic Relate Peter Cutting Edge Yuck

Author:Richard Gere

“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.”

Hands Wanted Lasts Lost Felt Easy Interest Careers Worry Records Involved Beats Tired Celebrate Exhausted Get Involved Lawsuit

Author:Tom Petty

“People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.”

People Knows Kind Hands Chance Streets Like You Stores Screens

Author:Andre Benjamin

“I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.”

Knows Hands Care Fighting Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Kanye West

“Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.”

Feels Writing May Hands Force Sound Greater Pages Standing Pens Middlemen

Author:Neil Simon

“I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.”

Needs Use Hands Computer Pages

Author:Neil Simon

“Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.”

Thinking Way Want Mind Children Sometimes Hands Eye Games Intelligent Our Children Your Children Coordination Supple Lateral Thinking

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.”

Ifs Thinking May Facts Hands Levels Worry Harder Phones Stealing Drunk Enjoyment Pockets Over You Unnecessary Coats Wallets

Author:Jon Richardson

“I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.”

People Hands Song Wonder Hell Records Percent Prison Guitar Legs Melody

Author:Ronnie Radke

“Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.”

Writing Sometimes Hands Song Paper Guitar Devices Melody Pens Audio Great Lyric Audio Recording

Author:Jon Foreman

“Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.”

People Littles Art Made Hands Cards Crafts

Author:Sarah Kay

“Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.”

People Giving Years Littles Art Made Book Feelings Hands Able Love Is Objects Mines Particular Ten Give Me Cards Crafts

Author:Sarah Kay

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