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“Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.”

Trying Country Hands Running Left Afghanistan Regimes Alliances Puppets Kabul Warlords

Author:Ted Rall

“I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.”

Ends Hands Eye Left Nerves Medicare Glaucoma

Author:Gary McCord

“When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.”

Hands Kids Jobs Guy Left Basketball Glad Sane Solitary Good Job Left Alone

Author:Tim Duncan

“Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.”

Want Enough Hands Left Given Satisfaction

Author:Horace

“Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.”

Ends Hands Left Paint Boxes Bored Boredom Loose Ends

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”

Ifs Want Use Hands Left Practice Masters Overcoming Difficulty Constant Insignificant Adapted Left Hand

Author:Pliny the Elder

“There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.”

Mind Wells Book Hands Left Written Pages Enormous Well Written Left Hand Redundancy

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”

Doe Art Said Play Facts Hands Left Work Strange Fingers Reactions Thank God Dedication Hiking Bloody San Francisco Enslavement Left Hand Boulders Hurling

Author:Pablo Casals

“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

“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

“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

“I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.”

Writing Hands Left Eating Including Knives Left Hand

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.”

Knows Way Years Littles Made Hands Christian Left Week Teaching Goes On Pages Foundation Jew Scripture Boast Oracles

Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.”

Years Made Hands Earth Law Turns Left Stars Common Blood Planets Years Ago Physics Billions Iron Chemistry Molecules Stardust Left Hand

Author:Jill Tarter

“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”

Want Feels Years Two Hands Lasts Father Left Mines Dad Paper Late Letters Sick Trade Filled My Dad Busy Connected Legacy Too Late Touched Two Years Hug Notebook Too Busy Handwriting

Author:Lakshmi Pratury

“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

“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

“Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.”

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances”

Wells Hands Left Chance Drawing Take A Chance Left Hand

Author:Bob Dylan

“My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.”

Should Matter Hands Left Historical Notion Recognition Experts Historian

Author:Shinzo Abe

“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.”

Men Ends Hands Fall Left Lines Millions Graves Chains Reform Remove Links Ancestor Apes Suspended

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.”

Ifs Looks Stories Hands Might Eye Guy Turns Left Steps Feet Messages Crosses Balls Sorry Coffee Controlled Chests Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Thierry Henry

“We don't stop and realize that we are dealing with people - the far-left doesn't think we need a military to start with, they really don't. You've heard me say this before, they really believe if all countries would just stand in a circle and unilaterally disarm and hold hands then all threats would go away, they believe that. They would never say that but they do believe that.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Believe Country Hands Left Realizing Heard Military Threat Circles Going Away Holding Hands Dealing With People

Author:James Inhofe

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?”

Hands Left Space Planets Needed Balance Edges Surface Adam Abyss Left Alone

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.”

Writing Hands Left Germany Left Hand Oddities

Author:Kurt Tucholsky

“I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.”

Needs May Hands Left Sound Interest Fund Old Fashioned

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.”

Ifs Knows Wells May Enough Hands Able Guy Left Strong Can Do Hitting This Guy Yankees Strong Enough New York Yankees Fellas Left Handers

Author:Casey Stengel

“Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.”

Hands Left Painting Versions Painter Chapters

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.”

Hands Left Behinds Forever Jokes Delight Ministers Passages Left Behind

Author:Phillips Brooks

“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.”

Writing May Use Hands Left Knowing Accounts Inferiors Left Hand Knowing Myself

Author:John Milton

“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”

War Hands Left Causes Psychology Environment Crime Conflict Strikes Commit Carrie Categories Distress Womb Neighbour Left Hand

Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.”

Thinking Writing Mind Hands Able Left Dues Complaining Engaged Of My Mind Personal Relationships Left Hand

Author:Rebecca West

“When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.”

Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

“It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.”

Ifs Wells Reason Use Hands Left Heard Hero Mortals Fewer Mischief

Book:Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...

Source: Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...

“I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.”

Want Home Hands Remember Used Night Left Walks Streets Students Determination Pockets Exhausted Coats Fists Back Home Collars

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“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

“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

“The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.”

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“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.”

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.”

Stills I Can Hands Left Cutting Tomorrow Rounds Plenty Substance Abstract Bitterness Cake

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all. After all, you marry for friendship, for companionship - and passion after a while ... pfffft. I mean, does it excite you when your left hand touches your right?”

Thinking Way Mean Doe Hands Passion Left Sex Companionship Left Hand

Book:Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]