Hands Quotes
In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.
Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it's difficult for anyone to make any headway, yet keep his hands clean.
God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training.
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.
When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.
When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.
You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.
And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.
Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.
To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.
As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.
