#trembles

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#desire #fingers #had #i #instead

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#enemy #generals #his #hope #i

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. ↗

— Hannah More

#gives #least #like #little #love

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#evil #faith #good #laughs #leaf

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. ↗

— William Cowper

#saint #satan #sees #their #trembles

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#alone #cold #man #trembles #without

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#better #board #calmly #chess #good