Palms Quotes - Page 21

• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm,
  I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms.
  You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.

  Sean Price

  Mom, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: King Kong

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• A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

  Ron Chernow

  Taken, Son, Men

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• How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

  Andrew Marvell

  Winning, Men, Tree

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 1

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• I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Believe, Balls, Cards

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• I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Moon, Islands

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• In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

  Marcel Marceau

  Art, Hands, Creative

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• There is not any haunt of prophecy,
  Nor any old chimera of the grave,
  Neither the golden underground, nor isle
  Melodious, where spirits gat them home,
  Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm
  Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured
  As April's green endures; or will endure
  Like her remembrance of awakened birds,
  Or her desire for June and evening, tipped
  By the consummation of the swallow's wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Home, June

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.22, Vintage

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• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Logic

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

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• All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.

  Jens Jensen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Time

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• The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Spiritual, Eternal

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• To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

  Li-Young Lee

  Fathers Day, Dad, Prayer

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.15, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

  Bob Hope

  Spring, Golf, Play

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• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Christmas, Summer, Beach

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• Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Greed, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 7

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• Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Oil, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Sep 05, 2014

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• I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

  J. I. Packer

  Eye, Knowing, Hands

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.7, InterVarsity Press

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• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Heart, Breathing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

  Laurence Leamer

  Hands, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

  Muhammad Ali

  Islamic, Heart, Pockets

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• Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Giving Up, People

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