Hands Quotes

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't mean anything.

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

I would, but I know where that hand's been.

Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

I don't drink anymore, on the other hand I don't drink any less either.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.

I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip." She said when I dip, that I better be equipped and keep my hand on her hips.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.