"One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do."

-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Hands Quotes #Common Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.”
“Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?”
“Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Source : "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)
“I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.”
“I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.”
“When you work hard and you treat people great, regardless of what it is that you're doing, naturally people want to help and do things.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart Talks 'Real Husbands of Hollywood,' Becoming the Next 'Chappelle Show'". Interview with Britni Danielle, www.essence.com. January 10, 2013.
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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