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Letter "F" » fingers
«The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals»
«The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.»
Author: Larry Flynt
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Publisher)
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About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Love,
Words
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Keywords:
count,
die,
Die Trying,
English,
entire,
fingered,
fingering,
fingers,
hand,
misuse,
misused,
on one hand,
start,
tried and true,
trying
«When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.»
«Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.»
«Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess.»
Author: Elvis Presley
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Actor,
Singer)
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About:
People
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Keywords:
all together,
back and forth,
fingers,
guess,
on tap,
snap,
snapped,
snapping,
snaps,
snap at,
sway,
swaying,
sways,
tap,
tapping,
taps
«Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
affairs,
chestnut,
chestnuts,
cunning,
damage,
fingers,
forced,
guard,
intent,
intentions,
intent on,
motives,
of your own,
the fire,
watchfulness
«Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.»
Author: Helen Keller
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Author,
Educator)
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Keywords:
clutched,
clutches,
clutching,
emptiness,
fell,
fingers,
leaped,
leapt,
leap out,
rapture,
raptures,
stillness,
The Rapture
«O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.»
«We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.»
«On the other hand, you have different fingers.»