Avalanches Quote by Thom Gunn Download Open image “As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.” — Thom Gunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avalanches Enough Hands
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man. — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
You couldn't make the crowd throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers. — Eminem Copy Share Image
You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers. — Eminem Copy Share Image
He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them. — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.” — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes -… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources,… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
