Cesare Pavese Quotes

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Cesare Pavese

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• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Story
  • Give

• To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Couple
  • Swimming

• I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Give

• When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Night
  • Words
  • Hand

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Name

• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Hand

• If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Me
  • Hair
  • Give

• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Hand
  • Adventure
  • Go

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Pain
  • Ready
  • Reach

• You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Things

• The hand has the richest articulation of space.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Space
  • Hand
  • Articulation

• I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Give
  • Back

• In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There's a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There's a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Great
  • Support

• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  

  Cao Cao
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Battle

• 1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language. Thus I am now me again, I am here, I go about my ordinary business, I have nothing to do with the book, or, to be exact, I entered it, but I can no longer enter it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Business
  • Book
  • Language

• But suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Universe

• Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Why
  • War
  • Innocent

• Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Hand
  • Give
  • Ready