Hands Quotes

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

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

The hand is quicker than the eye is, but somewhat slower than the fly is.

Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

I love [that] you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near... I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.

I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.