Mark Twain Quotes, Hands Quotes, Soul Quotes

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Heart Quotes , Hands Quotes

I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

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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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Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

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It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

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Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Hands Quotes , Silence Quotes

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

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If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Hands Quotes

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hands Quotes , Design Quotes

I hear better with a pen in my hand.

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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

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If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!

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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Doors Quotes , Hands Quotes

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

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Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

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