Anton Chekhov Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Hands Quotes

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

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

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

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I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

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

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

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Hands Quotes , Doe Quotes

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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Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Keys Quotes , Hands Quotes

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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