Morris West Quotes

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

Morris West

• Hands
• Letting
• Clinging

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Saying

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Shake
  • Standpoint

• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hands

• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Hands
  • Wealth
  • Communism

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Black
  • Hand
  • Hands

• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Hands
  • Feet
  • March

• It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can't afford it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Believe
  • Live
  • May

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Ashamed
  • Clinging

• You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Hands

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Virtue

• Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Hands

• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Win
  • Champion

• Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her.

  

  Juan Pablo Galavis
  • Daughter
  • Priority
  • Plans

• Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.

  

  William P. Perry
  • Thinking
  • Inspiration
  • Habit

• There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

  

  Morris West
  • Hands
  • Letting
  • Clinging