Hands Quotes - Page 39

• To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Kissing, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

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• What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

  William Shakespeare

  Feet, Bravery, Might

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• How in the turmoil of life can love stand,
  Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Heart, Mouths

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.113

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• To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Twilight, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

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• The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Example, Acquisition

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• On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

  Bill Vaughan

  People, Common Sense, Sick

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• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  Bill Vaughan

  Empty, Danger, Petitions

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• Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

  George Herbert

  Cures

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.337

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• Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
  With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
  Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
  Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
  But all to please and sate the curious taste?

  John Milton

  Nature, Sea, Covering

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  Rachael Harris

  Trying, Moments, That Moment

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• The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

  Amy Poehler

  School, Want, Needs

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• Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

  Robert Stack

  Space, Strange Stories, Looks

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• One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Wounds And Scars, Choices, Age

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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• Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Accountability, Upset, Feelings

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• There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, More To Life

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.65, Random House

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• Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can REALLY hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

  Gale Harold

  Jesus, Rocks, Anchors

  "Queer as Folk ‘s Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Degenerates

  Emile bk. 1 (1762)

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• As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Feelings, Architect, Fingers

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• Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.

  David Lynch

  Men, Thinking, Perception

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• I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

  Ariana Grande

  Just Being, All Time, Studios

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• I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Trying, Cinema, Kind

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• I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

  Akshay Kumar

  Bricks, Break

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• I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor

  Taylor Lautner

  Stars, Feet, Years

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• I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

  Ashley Jensen

  Designer Clothes, Bears, Pounds

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