Hands Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

As if the world and they were hand and glove.

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.'

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.

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

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 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.

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

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

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

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

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.