Hands Quotes

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".

With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.

What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it's amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it and spreading it through the being.

Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

The hour-hand of life.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

If you don't like someone, don't shake their hand.

Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy.

Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.