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Hands Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
- As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at…
- Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot,…
- taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
- I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability…
- She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.
- When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination…
- As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with…
- They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of…
- I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits…
- What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable…
- He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had…
- Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in…
- Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick…
- His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I…
- all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made…
- Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my…
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- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
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- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf