Hands Quotes

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

As if the world and they were hand and glove.

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Let's start with where you are,' he said. 'You're here.' Taking her hand, he pressed it to his chest above his heart.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.