The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
Quotes about fingernail (8 Quotes)
Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.
Judge Roberts has a combination of substantive expertise and stylistic smoothness ... He's likely to fly through this without anyone laying a fingernail on him.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
My opinion, ... ... is it was not caused by somebody's fingernail.
We get that huge win that we've been losing by a fingernail the last couple of years.
We check the sex of the butterfly, the condition of the wings, and then we put a small sticker the size of a pinky fingernail on the lower underside of their bottom wing. The tag has a phone number on it and a tag identification number, and then we let it go.
He did. In focusing so intently on things people might be carrying, I think we probably overreacted, ... Does anybody truly think you could take over an airplane with fingernail clippers, nail files, cuticle scissors The answer is absolutely not. We need to move from looking for weapons to paying attention to people who are or could be terrorists.