Famous quotes containing the words losing and/or hand:
“Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds; for to say, under such circumstances, Do not decide, but leave the question open, is itself a passional decisionjust like deciding yes or noand is attended with the same risk of losing the truth.”
—William James (18421910)
“One hand stiffheaviness of forties & menopause reduced
by one heart stroke, lame nowwrinklesa scar on
her head, the lobotomyruin, the hand dipping downwards to
death”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)