Hands Quotes

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

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

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.

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.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

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

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

Anger assists hands however weak.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

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

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

The hand in the eye is the ultimate tool.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

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?

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.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!