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It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.
Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.
I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.
The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.
I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.
If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.
People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.