Hand Rails

Famous quotes containing the words hand and/or rails:

“Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:10.

Job.

“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)