Quotes with hand-break

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  • Bruce Barton Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Ba Jin The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
    Source: A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ouida A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Brene Brown A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Joseph Roux A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Edward Gibbon A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Austin O'Malley A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Blake Anderson A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.''
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Samuel Butler A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir Alec Guiness A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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  • Seneca A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Machiavelli A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
    Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850) Ch XII
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Woodrow Wilson A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Epictetus A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Hewitt A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.
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