Hands Quotes

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values

Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.