Quotes with hand-break

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  • Sigmund Freud It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Source: Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Anais Nin It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Charles Dickens It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Benazir Bhutto It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
    Source: Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Springsteen It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
    Source: The Rising (2002) Countin on a Miracle
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Cate Campbell It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Philip Roth It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
    Source: Everyman (2006)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • A. E. van Vogt It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bjork It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Adrien Brody It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
    Adrien Brody
     
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  • Billie Jean King It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
    Source: Aint It Cool News interview
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Angela Davis Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Anne Brontë Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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