Hands Quotes - Page 19

• I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

  Joseph Addison

  Suffering, Criminals, Faults

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457

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• Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.

  Joseph Addison

  Selfish, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.226

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• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Spring, Heart

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• At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Angel, Journey

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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, Two, White

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

  Victor Hugo

  Honor, Shadow, Wave

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• God in his harmony has equal ends
  For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
  For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
  Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
  And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
  With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
  The somber human troop.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Women, School

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

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• Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Two, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Disappointment, Real, People

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• You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Bridges, Tools

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Together, Pages

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disappointment, Voice, Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.155

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• When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Ocean, Feet

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

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• Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
  [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

  Ovid

  Kings, Long, Royalty

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• It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
  [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

  Ovid

  Royalty, Firm

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• The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

  Hugh Miller

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

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• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Royal, Virtue

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• The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

  Leigh Hunt

  Running, Laughter, Drama

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• 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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Forever, Delight, Ministers

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 415, 1895.

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Here I Am, Grace, Survival

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• When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Beautiful, Father, Thinking

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Girl, Thinking, World

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  Wallace Stevens

  Giving, Gold, Vigor

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.90, Univ of California Press

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• all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Rocks, World, Violence

  Slam the Door Softly (1970)

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