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Hands Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails,…
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- ...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
- The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably…
- A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
- But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
- ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
- He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
- Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated…
- Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
- I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands…
- Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
- Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast…
- We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of…
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of…
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
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- 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