Iron hand in a velvet glove.


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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
He shows her through a magnifying glass which he holds in a velvet glove.
REN GLASSER
John is an iron fist in a velvet glove, ... He's every bit as determined and tenacious as he is upli...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
ROBIN HOBB
They will work hand in glove.
ANTHONY COLEY
The deal fits Nokia's strategy hand-in-glove.
HANNU RAUHALA
The deal fits Nokia's strategy hand-in-glove,
HANNU RAUHALA
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional spa...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
She's an iron fist in a velvet glove. She's bloody good at her job, despite operating in a man's wor...
AMANDA DONOHOE
We really fit together very very nicely, like a hand into a glove,
JOE MOGLIA
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
BODIE THOENE
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand
BODIE THOENE
We're pretty much hand-in-glove with Customs and Border Protection every day in this initiative.
DEAN BOYD
Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
People are being terrorized by federal police working hand-in-glove with local officials and militia...
PETER TAKIRAMBUDDE
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand ca...
JILL TARTER
The C.I.A. has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification an...
PAUL GIMIGLIANO
The CIA has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification and w...
PAUL GIMIGLIANO
My hand swelled up so big it couldn't fit my glove, so I had to get a bigger size.
MICHELLE WIE
The front pins make these holes play two clubs shorter. When you can get a 9-iron in your hand as op...
BILL GLASSON
Whenever the invisible hand isn't operating the iron fist is
BART KOSKO
She was enjoying being with Charles. There was nothing relevant to her other than Charles. It's like...
XAVIER AMADOR
He caught Ben's come in the napkin, the smell making his mouth water harder than any chile sauce cou...
B.A. TORTUGA
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
WILLIAM COWPER
The most difficult pitch for a young catcher to catch is the glove-hand side pitch. You have a tende...
JOE MADDON
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a f...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
I refuse to argue with you, Charles! You're my partner! Your job is to iron my shirts and cook my om...
LEMONY SNICKET
He did a good job in his first varsity start. He's been pitching with a cast on his left hand, under...
CLAY MCCAMMON
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his s...
FRANCIS BACON
We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove; But where shall we find leash, or ...
UNKNOWN
[In the pyramid photo, taken in November 2003, England was viewed smiling in front of piles of naked...
XAVIER AMADOR
If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything...
HENRY CABOT LODGE
In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c...
ROGER STONE
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of s...
SPIKE MILLIGAN
I told him to get a first base glove, a second base, shortstop, third base and outfield gloves. The ...
JERRY NARRON
Catching the ball? That's not a fundamental. It's what you do when you wake up and put a glove on yo...
FRANK ROBINSON
Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Differenc...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Our New York customers are among the most demanding and tech savvy in the nation and, while other wi...
CHARLES HAND
Our goal is for all of our customers to be customers for life. Our Worry-Free Guarantee is the tool ...
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We always have our classic yellow and our double chocolate and recently we decided to keep red velve...
NOAH ANTIEAU
Black Velvet.
ERIKA JO
The collaboration of right-wing NGOs and the Bush administration far exceeds any collaboration betwe...
FRANCES KISSLING
You have to have good ambient light as well as a task light — a floor lamp or a side table lamp.
VELVET HAMMERSCHMIDT
Willy was one of those guys who never liked to change gloves. He used to put tongue depressors in th...
BROOKS ROBINSON
Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

Tonight when the stars come out and the m...
VERA NAZARIAN
If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy but the mud will never get glovey.
UNKNOWN
Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that ob...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
DANA CARVEY
Keep cool but care
THOMAS PYNCHON
Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving abov...
OSCAR WILDE
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
That's why he has a golden glove.
DUSTY BAKER
We've got to get him a knuckleball catcher's glove,
NORV TURNER
I like the glove to be a little loose,
ICHIRO SUZUKI
Funky just basically took over. The last hole and I had a four-iron in my hand and I figured I could...
TIGER WOODS
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so va...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
D. B. SWEENEY
Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. ...
ASHOK KALLARAKKAL
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
no glove, no love
LAUREN OLIVER
I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don't feel in...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE
Medley for a V.
DJ QUIK
Iron sharpeth iron.
BIBLE
sailor(s) in a big iron box.
JOE SCHWARZER
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VINCE VAUGHN
Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and ...
JENNY UGLOW
I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God c...
LEE TREVINO
I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.
SHAY MITCHELL
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Is...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN
"Suck a dude" ~Flying V
J-BIRD
Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Velvet is huge this fall season.
KELLY RAE
The velvet dodges of the hypocrit
SYLVIA PLATH
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ANURAG KASHYAP
A guy like Figgins gets [robbed]. He's got a position, but he can play all over. He's got to get a G...
BUCK SHOWALTER
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes th...
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven
CHARLES V
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
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We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers a...
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Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
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It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron the...
P. D. JAMES
Which is colder, the hand or the gun?
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Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS
There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
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Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
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V. S. NAIPAUL
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It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that ...
MARK V. HURD
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C. V. RAMAN
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We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS
There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU
How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V
It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
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Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
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E. V. COOKE
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While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there...
EUGENE V DEBS
All work and no fore-play makes Jane a dull girl...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO
It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific...
C. V. RAMAN
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the write...
V. S. NAIPAUL
Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
HEINZ V. BERGEN
I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.
MARIA V. SNYDER
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE V. DEBS
Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of...
V. GORDON CHILDE
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. KLASSEN
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourse...
MATTHEW V. LEWIS
The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
MARIA V. SNYDER
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ...
E. V. LUCAS
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
V. S. PRITCHETT
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The ...
EUGENE V. DEBS
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. LUCAS
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Pr...
C. V. RAMAN
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material...
V. S. NAIPAUL
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized throu...
C. V. RAMAN
The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
HARVEY V. FINEBERG
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They wi...
C. V. RAMAN
I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and...
MARK V. HURD
Given the tremendous customer response we have had to the Gaylord National, we have decided to incre...
COLIN V. REED
I've been a free man.
V. S. NAIPAUL
...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE
...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
ANDREW V. MASON