Agony Quote by June Jordan Download Open image “To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.” — June Jordan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agony Hands Opening
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. — John Keble Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has… — Kane Copy Share Image