Trembling Hands Quotes

• True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

  Paulo Freire

  Fighting, Generosity, Making A Difference

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crush, Flower, Hands

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Lying, Fighting, Hands

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

  Knut Hamsun

  Spiritual, Real, Eye

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• If sex were all, then every trembling hand
  Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sex, Hands, Dolls

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.74, Vintage

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• The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Lonely, Stars, Night

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• In Heaven's happy bowers
  There blossom two flowers,
  One with fiery glow
  And one as white as snow;
  While lo! before them stands,
  With pale and trembling hands,
  A spirit who must choose
  One, and one refuse.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Flower, Hands, Two

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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