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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.


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ROBERT SOUTHEY Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great o...
SHAKTI GAWAIN Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely grea...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Where are you getting these documents? Whose hands are behind them?
BARZAN IBRAHIM Blessings unlimited awaits the one whose hands are called loose.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones w...
PHIL BREDESEN Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE O jackal, leave aside the body of that man at once, whose hands have never given in charity, whose e...
CHANAKYA I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'
SHERYL CROW The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose s...
OSCAR WILDE [A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown ...
GEORGE SAND (PSEUDONYM OF MME. DUDEVANT) The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
ROBERT HERRICK The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam
ROBERT HERRICK Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
BLAISE PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere
BLAISE PASCAL The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
ROBERT HERRICK Folks, our hands are tied,
BILL CAREY You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies ...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER An enemy is like boiling water in a pot on the stove whose button may sometimes be in your hands.
VIKRANT PARSAI Right now, our hands are tied.
BRIAN ROELL Our hands are tied quite often.
CITY MANAGER MARI MACOMBER When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have fail...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police
AUGUST STRINDBERG He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous ...
THE TALMUD That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Legally, I feel my hands are tied
LAURA BUSH Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
AUGUST STRINDBERG There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tr...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave
MATTHEW HENRY He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
MATTHEW HENRY That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is fascinating to think of whose hands that instrument has been in.
DAVE BALL Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ-- Whose soldier now, under whose bles...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The athletes are youngsters whose time is still to come.
CRAIG ROSS Whose little boy are you?
JAMES BALDWIN Whose side are you on?
BILL BENNETT I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT Our hands are tied from a federal perspective and will continue to be tied until the federal governm...
DAVID PALSROK For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave, W...
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CHRISTIAN BOBIN Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
COLONEL MUHAMMAR QADDAFI Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
THOMAS CARLYLE Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT We are concerned whose side you are on.
BENJAMIN CARDIN A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral funct...
JOHN BERGER Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
MIDRASH An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEIL Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. B...
ROBERT GOOLRICK [On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and ...
MARK TWAIN Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
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BILL KELLER The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this publ...
KEVIN RUDD Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
THOMAS CARLYLE (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the ene...
BIBLE May the nights always be aglow
with the bliss of the day
with unharmed hands and feet
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UNKNOWN All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
MARJORIE HOLMES For me, the person whose thoughts are still spoken is never dead.
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MICHAEL IGNATIEFF O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...
LEO ROSTEN My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
DITA VON TEESE I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness ...
FRANK HERBERT Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose tr...
BIBLE A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Advertisers are paying millions to companies whose practices are often borderline and an annoyance t...
MICHAEL HAMILTON There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the p...
MAXFIELD PARRISH Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
JOSEF STALIN Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
JOSEPH STALIN Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
JOSEPH STALIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose ga...
THOMAS MOORE He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodil...
CHANAKYA Dear soulmate, whose soul are you still mating?
MJ CHRISTINE Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul
ALEXANDER POPE Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their op...
DOUG DUCEY Larry Mackey is an experienced trial lawyer and an accomplished leader whose skills were instrumenta...
JANET RENO Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by poverty.
UNKNOWN Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Our hands are tied, we can't walk away and we can't afford to leave.
FRED BALL An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
ALBERT CAMUS whose army is not an army of conquest.
GERHARD SCHROEDER This is an idea whose time has come.
DAN GEER That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at ...
RAY BRADBURY Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.
PETER MCKAY Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
THOMAS CARLYLE Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books
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