Quotes by category:Hands

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

rest-of-your-life hands thinking

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

hand-holding girl hands

I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

hands people thinking

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

appreciation hands people

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

lazy laziness hands

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

heart hands religion

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

melting faces hands

Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

glowing men hands

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

museums hands art

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost th... by D. H. Lawrence

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

winter hands fall

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

depression men hands

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

alive men hands

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

drug alcohol hands

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

crazy museums hands

I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face." -Bobby Pendragon by D. J. MacHale

I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face." -Bobby Pendragon

hurt sorry hands

On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in under... by D. Todd Christofferson

On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and

D. Todd Christofferson

understanding opposites hands

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are enter... by D. Todd Christofferson

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

D. Todd Christofferson

virtue vices hands

Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.

real science hands

Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

giving-up taken hands

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, alwa... by Dag Hammarskjold

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

Dag Hammarskjold

bookshelves hands