Clasped Quotes
58 quotes by 50 authors
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by…
— Victor Hugo
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I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer…
— Cathy Freeman
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He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around my waist, and said henceforth we were married.
— Herman Melville
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My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and…
— Queen Victoria
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Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon…
— Ravi Zacharias
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A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.
— Beth Moore
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There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never…
— Michael Heseltine
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A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and…
— Genghis Khan
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Elizabeth, With my compliments. You will never get your claws into another one of mine. Rot in hell, Nïx clasped her hands over her chest,…
— Kresley Cole
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty…
— Helen Keller
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Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep…
— Abraham Coles
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.…
— Victor Hugo
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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
— Angela Carter
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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
— Virginia Woolf
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Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are…
— Haruki Murakami
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I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped…
— Koren Zailckas
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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under…
— Charlaine Harris
Who Wrote These Clasped Quotes
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