Hands Quotes

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

Extend your hand with the strongest reach.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap

Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

If I die tomorrow the world is in great hands. In a much better hands than mine.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.