Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Fire Quotes, Hands Quotes

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

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Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

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There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

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Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.

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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Hands Quotes , Government Quotes

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

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Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

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By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

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It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

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I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

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