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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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

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Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

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What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

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With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

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By He in whose Hand is my soul, I have lived amongst people who never ordered food to be prepared for themselves If [food] was presented to one of them, he would eat, otherwise, he would be silent; and he would not care if it was hot or cold.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.

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A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

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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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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

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