Hands Quotes

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,— Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

Donald Trump's insulting comments about women go hand in hand with his plans to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who will end legal abortion.

We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them.

You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Daesh will not stop at Iraq. It will extend its hands and arms into different parts of the world.