Hands Quotes

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

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

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

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.

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.

Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.

I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was a worse fit because I don't really have a mind for that.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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

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

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

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

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

I love it when receivers catch the balls with their hands.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

Those with open hearts always have open hands.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

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

God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.