Famous quotes containing the words left hand, left, hand and/or point:
“I traded my childhood for my good left hand.”
—Yeou-Cheng Ma (b. c. 1950)
“We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. The Indians have left no traces on its surface, but it is the same to the civilized man and the savage. The aspect of the shore only has changed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its jokes. While the association holds and the fashion lasts, they admit nothing well said or well done except by one of themselves, and they are incapable of appeciating anything from another source, to the point of despising those who are not initiated into their mysteries.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (16451696)