Voltaire Quotes, Life Quotes, Hands Quotes

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Hands Quotes

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention

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I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

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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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O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Hands Quotes , Generosity Quotes

Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her... Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.

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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Hands Quotes , Use Quotes

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

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Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.

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