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Hands Quotes by Victor Hugo
- 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…
- One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on…
- The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,…
- We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
- Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
- The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
- They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but…
- Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust…
- By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
- 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.…
- Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we…
- Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that…
- Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born…
- He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be…
- Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling,…
- There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
- In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.
More Hands Quotes
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- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- 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