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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
Charles DickensRead
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.
Marilyn FrenchRead
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
A. A. MilneRead
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David BowieRead
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler YeatsRead
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
Betty WhiteRead
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan WattsRead
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis De TocquevilleRead
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.
Lewis ThomasRead
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis ThomasRead
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
Quentin TarantinoRead
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
Nassim Nicholas TalebRead
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.
William BlakeRead
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
Tony BlairRead
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas SowellRead
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Patti SmithRead
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Gustave FlaubertRead
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
Aldous HuxleyRead
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.
Swami VivekanandaRead

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