Worn Hands Quotes

#1. If an evil has been pondered beforehand, the blow is gentle when it comes.

Seneca.

#2. I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

Sarah Dessen

#3. Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.

Lisa M

#4. If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Kevin Pollak

#5. In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

Bonnie Tyler

#6. Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Alain De Botton

#7. A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. You don't know what I want, so how will you know what I will regret?

Joanna Shupe

#9. Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

Bertolt Brecht

#10. This relentless bonhomie of yours, I knew it would wear out in the end. It is a coin that has changed hands so often. And now the small silver is worn out and we see the base metal.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Love is the only disease we don't want to be cured.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#13. I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

Amy Poehler

#14. An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Herman Melville

#15. His hands had dropped to the worn butts of his guns. "Those do not open doors, gunslinger; those only close them forever.

Stephen King

#16. So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved: the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.

Booth Tarkington

#17. But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh?

Virginia Woolf

#18. The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

Ted Hughes

#19. Ranel had said that the murderer wore a ring with a red gemstone. Looking at Akkarin's hands, she was almost disappointed to see they were bare. Not even a mark to hint that a ring might have been worn regularly. His fingers were long and elegant, yet masculine ...

Trudi Canavan

#20. Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

Jay Asher

#21. Knowledge is only potential power.

Napoleon Hill

#22. I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.

Emo Philips

#23. What the hell? Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet, and he'd worn them to please her. Too bad there hadn't been enough time for the underwear to meet with an unfortunate accident. A lot could be blamed on a washing machine.

Rose Wynters

#24. When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

Niall Williams

#25. It is never too late to love.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.

Safra A. Catz

#27. The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the edges by human hands. No little child has written a note in it, long ago. It will not be passed down to the children of the children who use it. Its "meaning" is that there is no enduring meaning.

Anthony M. Esolen

#28. I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Edmund Wilson

#29. A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#30. I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

Andrew Wyeth

#31. Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo ... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you.

Jennifer Donnelly

#32. I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponderous furniture, the flotsam left by those receding centuries in which, more and more, I was living.

Margaret Atwood