"Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought."

-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Strong Quotes #Hands Quotes

“When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”

Source : 1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
“Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”
“Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.”
“My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.”
“The normal way of gathering information is through sound: when you hear information that you want to gather, you look in its direction, you see what it is, if you choose you can get closer, you can see it, you can touch, and then, finally, the most committed form of data gathering is to taste it and eat it. But for the urbanite, we're cut off from our primary sense, and I want to stress that - our primary sense of gathering information about the place that we're living in - and instead, we're in a war zone.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
“It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.”
“Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.”

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