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  • O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.

    Sunshine   Wings   Envy  
  • Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  • I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

    Flower   Heart   Rose  
    William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin
  • I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

    Girl   Hate   Night  
  • Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave

  • It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

    Imagination   World   Hem  
    Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.57, Open Road Media
  • You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  • If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

    Power   Hem   Influence  
  • Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.

    Hem   Inches   Curtains  
  • Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your aunt or your mother or your father and people would go into these trance states and you could introduction autosuggestions tot hem or as some people saw it, you could cure them of illnesses.

    Mother   Father   Home  
    Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.
  • XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

    Rocks   Wind   Long  
    Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation
  • Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

    Risk   Trying   Cinema  
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  • In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.

  • A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

    "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.
  • Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

    Grace   Stitches   Hem  
    Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.48, Penguin
  • His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.

    Air   Two   Leaving  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
  • The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.

    Moon   Feet   Shadow  
    Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books
  • When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

    Hem   Pants   Pairs  
  • And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

    Book   Games   Noon  
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”
  • The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

    Reading   Hem   Fifteen  
    William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140
  • All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.

    Knowledge   Men   Wife  
    Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.76
  • I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

    Wall   Fiction   Hem  
  • The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.

    Life   Loyalty   Real  
  • We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

    Needs   Hem   Mystery  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
  • I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

    Rip   Men   Shoes  
  • She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress

    Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press
  • Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment...and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence.

    Morning   Book   Angel  
  • It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.

    Heart   Missing   Hem  
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