"There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods."

-- Robert Wilson Lynd

#Beautiful Quotes #Hands Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.”
“It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.”
“Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.”
“(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
“There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.”
“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”
“Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.”
“A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.”

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