Left Hand Point

Famous quotes containing the words left, hand and/or point:

    “When was I ever anything but kind to him?
    But I’ll not have the fellow back,” he said.
    “I told him so last haying, didn’t I?
    ‘If he left then,’ I said, ‘that ended it.’
    What good is he? Who else will harbor him
    At his age for the little he can do?
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Olivia. Is’t not well done?
    Viola. Excellently done, if God did all.
    Olivia. ‘Tis in grain, sir, ‘twill endure wind and weather.
    Viola. ‘Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
    Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
    Paul De Man (1919–1983)