Hands Quotes

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

I think it's not enough for us to extend the hand of love. I think it's important that that goes both ways. It's important also that we look at policies we need to change as well.

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.

You cannot clap with one hand alone.

The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

It takes 10 hands to score a basket

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.