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Image of Kristin Cashore
When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.
- Kristin Cashore
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Image of Ed Parker
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.
- Ed Parker
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Image of Ralph Washington Sockman
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
- Ralph Washington Sockman
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Image of John Marsden
What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
- John Marsden
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Image of Art Spiegelman
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.
- Art Spiegelman
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Image of Stephen Breyer
We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other
- Stephen Breyer
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Image of Charles Simic
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.
- Charles Simic
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Image of Mark Walden
Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it always the bald ones?
- Mark Walden
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Image of Cheyenne McCray
Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.
- Cheyenne McCray
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Image of Meg Wolitzer
Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.
- Meg Wolitzer
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Image of Ruskin Bond
To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.
- Ruskin Bond
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Image of Andre Benjamin
People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.
- Andre Benjamin
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Image of James Salter
I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.
- James Salter
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Image of Jana Oliver
Everyone has a breaking point, Riley. He hit his long time ago. But you didn't. He smiled and sqeezed her hand.'Because of you.' Weaving his arm around her waist, they walked up the stairs in tandem. - Riley Blackthorne and Paul Blackthorne
- Jana Oliver
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Image of Boyle Roche
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
- Boyle Roche
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Image of James Otis
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.
- James Otis
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Image of James Otis
I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
- James Otis
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Image of Sherry Argov
Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.
- Sherry Argov
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Image of Leymah Gbowee
The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.
- Leymah Gbowee
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Image of Bernard Beckett
I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
- Bernard Beckett
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Image of David Blaine
To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.
- David Blaine
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Image of Renzo Piano
Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.
- Renzo Piano
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Image of Julia Quinn
I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.
- Julia Quinn
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Image of Emily Saliers
No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.
- Emily Saliers
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Image of Emily Saliers
I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.
- Emily Saliers
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Image of Jeffrey McDaniel
I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.
- Jeffrey McDaniel
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Image of Markus Zusak
When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again.
- Markus Zusak
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Image of Patrick Süskind
He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.
- Patrick Süskind
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Image of Judith McNaught
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
- Judith McNaught
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Image of Wole Soyinka
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
- Wole Soyinka
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Image of Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Image of St. Vincent
It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
- St. Vincent
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Image of Robert Bresson
The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!
- Robert Bresson
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Image of Geoff Mulgan
So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.
- Geoff Mulgan
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Image of Kobayashi Issa
Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together
- Kobayashi Issa
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Image of Joe Strummer
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
- Joe Strummer
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Image of Nigel Slater
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.
- Nigel Slater
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Image of Irvine Welsh
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
- Irvine Welsh
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Image of Holly Goldberg Sloan
It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.
- Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Image of Robert Reich
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"
- Robert Reich
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Image of Paul Newman
What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?
- Paul Newman
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Image of James Whitcomb Riley
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.
- James Whitcomb Riley
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Image of Jennifer Estep
And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.
- Jennifer Estep
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Image of Josiah Stamp
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.
- Josiah Stamp
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Image of Kathleen Winsor
I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
- Kathleen Winsor
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Image of Alaa Al Aswany
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.
- Alaa Al Aswany
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Image of Peter Stuyvesant
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
- Peter Stuyvesant
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Image of Geoffrey Moore
Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations.
- Geoffrey Moore
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Image of Gardiner Spring
Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy.
- Gardiner Spring
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