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Alan Bennett A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Chinua Achebe If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
feet jumping effort
Earl Wilson Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.
feet people challenges
Ed Begley, Jr. People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Dean Acheson Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
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Barry Diller Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Audre Lorde Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
feet foe
William Shakespeare Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
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Charles Dickens if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
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Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
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Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
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Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
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Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
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Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
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Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
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Jacki Weaver I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.