Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hands Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Hands Quotes

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Hands Quotes

My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.

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The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hands Quotes , Joy Quotes

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Children Quotes , Hands Quotes

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

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The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

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Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , School Quotes , Hands Quotes

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Hands Quotes , Self Quotes

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Children Quotes , Hands Quotes

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Horse Quotes , Hands Quotes

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Hands Quotes , Asking Quotes

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Hands Quotes