Famous quotes containing the words left, hand and/or point:
“We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 9:10.
“Ideals possess the strange quality that if they were completely realized they would turn into nonsense. One could easily follow a commandment such as Thou shalt not kill to the point of dying of starvation; and I might establish the formula that for the proper functioning of the mesh of our ideals, as in the case of a strainer, the holes are just as important as the mesh.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
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