Left Hand Quotes - Page 2

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

Umberto Eco

Writing, Hands, Novel

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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Margaret Atwood

Truth, Writing, Hands

FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Apr 02, 2013

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In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

James Keller

Work, Heart, Garden

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

John Milton

Writing, Hands, Knowing

'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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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.

Jill Tarter

Stars, Blood, Hands

"Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. July 23, 2012.

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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?

Diane von Furstenberg

Sex, Mean, Passion

Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Samuel Johnson

Hands, Prosperity, Frugality

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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.

Pliny the Elder

Hands, Practice, Overcoming

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It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

Plautus

Hands, Ravens, Justice

Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

Zeena Schreck

Fall, Hands, Path

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In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Heart, Ideas, Hands

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As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinking, Hands, Feet

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1292, e-artnow

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On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

Albert Einstein

Hands, Add, Fundamentals

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

Bob Dylan

Hands, Drawing, Chance

Song: Angelina

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My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

Barbara Hepworth

Thinking, Hands, Sequence

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Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

Charles Shackleford

Funny, Basketball, Sports

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I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.

Bob Cousy

Basketball, Moving, Nba

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Mark Twain

Ignorance, Men, Hands

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

Caroline Stevermer

Light, Hands, Safety

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.70, Open Road Media

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I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.

Mary Karr

Moving, Hands, Numbers

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... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Charlotte Bronte

Hands, Heaven, Gold

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?

Kristin Cashore

Hands, Firsts, Papa

Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.134, Penguin

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Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

Suzanne Collins

Mean, Thinking, Hands

"The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2008.

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Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, “Yes.” “Thank you,” he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my fingertips before he kissed the ring that was now mine.

Stephenie Meyer

Nice, Love You, Eye

Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.

Bernardino Ramazzini

Health, Writing, Hands

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