Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hands Quotes, World Quotes

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

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

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If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

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If we are to have the very best Christmas ever, we must listen for the sound of sandaled feet. We must reach out for the Carpenter's hand. With every step we take in his footsteps, we abandon a doubt and gain a truth.

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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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I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.

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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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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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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

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

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

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Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

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