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  • Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

    Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

    Hands   Pyramids   People  
  • I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

    Stress   Writing   Hands  
  • We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

    Stars   Blood   Hands  
    "Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. July 23, 2012.
  • I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

    Moving   Hands   Sky  
  • Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

  • Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.

    Hands   Left Hand   Path  
  • They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

    "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.
  • Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

    Faith   Hands   Soul  
    John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

    Mean   Thinking   Hands  
    "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2008.
  • On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

    Fall   Hands   Left Hand  
  • After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

    Left Hand   Crime   Form  
    "Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.
  • To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

    Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.55, Penguin
  • If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

    Hands   Left Hand   Path  
  • I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.

  • I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

  • That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

  • North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

  • Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.

    Pain   Mean   Hands  
    Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.70, Pan Macmillan
  • Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

    Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.488, RH Childrens Books
  • Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

    War   Hands   Psychology  
    Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”
  • Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

  • Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, “Yes.” “Thank you,” he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my fingertips before he kissed the ring that was now mine.

    Nice   Love You   Eye  
    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.

  • As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.

    Thinking   Hands   Feet  
    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1292, e-artnow
  • It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

    Life   Girl   Hands  
    "Nature of Life: A Study on Muscle". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 1948.
  • The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

    Wedding   Aunt   Hands  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

    Kings   Hands   Left Hand  
  • . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

    Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.154, Transaction Publishers
  • And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.

    Smell   Blood   Hands  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.956, Simon and Schuster
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