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The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.


Thomas Fowell Buxton

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KELLY JONES We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL I think the strength, the quickness and the hand speed is in there. I just don't think we're seeing ...
DAVE HAJEK Kindness and compassion go hand in hand. One who mistakes them as a weakness is far less than the or...
MAICHEE SUMMER Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families i...
STEVE THOMAS The thing is so tight that euphoria and depression are going hand in hand with both of them.
FERNANDO TUESTA There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand tog...
WILKIE COLLINS He caught Ben's come in the napkin, the smell making his mouth water harder than any chile sauce cou...
B.A. TORTUGA Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight.
MARION C. GARRETTY Hold onto the knife tight with your whole hand, put your right hand and your knife right on the cent...
JOE SABOL I'd grab his hand, and I'd say, 'Let's go, Mike, we've got to play St. Louis tonight -- that was our...
JACK RILEY Pride and humiliation hand in hand
Walked with them through the world where'er they went;
...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS A lot of circuses and shows wants their animals hand-raised, but for us, it's not the most ideal cir...
ANDY BLUE And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that wa...
GEORGES LIMBOUR One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable
THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON Vulnerability may seem like a weakness, but in truth, it is a strength for being able to show you ca...
KAILIN GOW A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
ELIZABETH I Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; wea...
TIMOTHY D. SNYDER You can't hand over the keys to the kingdom just yet -- but you can show him the box they come in. T...
LAURA CONIGLIARO She made most of her quilts by hand. This is the last quilt she made, but it's not done yet. It's a ...
JANE MESSER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your blac...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.
CLAUDIA GRAY Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our t...
ROBERT BROWNING Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our t...
ROBERT BROWNING The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a ...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI I named it Hand-In-Hand because when people work together, hand-in-hand we can all make a difference...
AUSTIN WEINERMAN A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchs...
MARJORIE HOLMES Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond...
BRENT WEEKS Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for ticklin...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I just thought it was a little nerves from the start; a lot of these guys have never raced in a stad...
JUSTIN GATLIN And they gazed at themselves in it, side by side and hand in hand, and they beheld neither gods nor ...
LAINI TAYLOR Jade: The Devil goes to God and says, "you think Job is your faithful servant, but if you took away ...
NICK SPENCER So hold my hand tight. Hold my hand with confidence. For this love can last forever. For this love w...
SHELBY DAWSON I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked...
BARRY LEVINSON Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, an...
BIBLE We came into the world like brother and brother;And now let's go hand in hand, not one before anothe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
JOHN DRYDEN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept ...
WILKIE COLLINS The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of streng...
M. KATHLEEN CASEY The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of streng...
LOIS WYSE Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand exten...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN On one hand, a Rubicon has been crossed: Israeli settlements were dismantled relatively easily, ... ...
SHLOMO AVINERI The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
W. S. ROSS Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. al...
JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; / The world was all before them, where to choo...
JOHN MILTON A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... I was stunned by the verdict. It shows that racial profiling seeps so deeply in our society that a w...
BILL BRADLEY It was unusual on the one hand, and yet so recognizable on the other.
ERIC ALBERTA We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA They were seeing some weakness in desktop and strength in notebooks, but not enough to offset the we...
SHAW WU Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
EDWARD YOUNG Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their faca...
WARREN FARRELL They come hand in hand. If you are a smoker, drinking and smoking more or less go literally hand in ...
ANTHONY CLARK Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
LIONEL BARRYMORE The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a st...
KAHLIL GIBRAN For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world
WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of d...
GEORGE ELIOT His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet give...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk comm...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another w...
JACK HANDY A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the ve...
MARJORIE HOLMES The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever s...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.
SUN MYUNG MOON Being a people-pleaser shows a defect and weakness in your character
SUNDAY ADELAJA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Forgiveness doesn't always imply a fault in the other person, but a fault in oneself, instead....for...
P. A. MONSON Small, red, and upright he waited,
gripping his new bookbag tight
in one hand and touching...
ANNE CARSON Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happe...
GEORGE W. BUSH Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence aga...
SAVITRI DEVI Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I thought our guys played well and were focused. The rain was a factor, but we didn't let it bother ...
ALLEN PLYLER I used all of my acting skills. At one point I let them think I had a poor hand. I knew if they smel...
KATHY LIEBERT In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak a...
FLORENCE KELLEY The record shows that I've kept a very steady hand on the helm throughout some enormous challeng...
KATE BROWN Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand.
VICKTOR ALEXANDER When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So quick to be at the sides of others; to lend a hand or simply a smile, while those closest to you ...
N. S. COLE I try to carry things that are hand crafted, hand sculpted, hand painted, hand embroidered and every...
MONICA DIBELLA Between Avon and Buxton, it's completely washed out.
JOE BAKER

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THOMAS BROOKS Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
THOMAS TRAHERNE We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a...
THOMAS SZASZ The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON