T. S. Eliot Quotes, Drinking Quotes, Hands Quotes

Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

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So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

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Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

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We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

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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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And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

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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 felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

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