Quotes about hand
hands mind world
The hand is where the mind meets the world. Carl Zimmer
hands victory defeat
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands. Alan Keyes
hands world turn-the-other-cheek
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. Al-Waleed bin Talal
hands order enemy
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness. Alain Badiou
hands telephones beloved
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. Alain de Botton
hands creating choices
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand. Al Gore
hands ideas people
Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
hands design creative
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
hands universe
One hand has surely worked throughout the universe. Charles Darwin
hands two one-day
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.
hands three records
I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you are planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up. Brad Sherman
hands two parent
The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true-although it sounds good!-but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me. Bobby Hull
hands black cards
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point? Bobby Fischer
hands house television
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that. Barry Levinson
hands despair hand-in-hand
Love and despair go hand in hand. Barry Hannah
hands giving democracy
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. Barbara Boxer
hands people achievement
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see. Arthur Schopenhauer
hands conviction genuine
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
hands wish desire
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
hands boredom misery
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
hands people solitude
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
hands people intellectual
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
hands circles waiting
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand. Antonio Machado
hands sake empty
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. Antonio Porchia
hands pockets freak
I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket. Brittany Murphy
hands phenomenology would-be
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. Edmund Husserl
hands looks mould
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould. Edmund Clarence Stedman
hands sight mind
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest. Edmund Hillary
hands victory unjust
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. Edmund Spenser
hands government-welfare scarcity
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. Edmund Burke
hands skills understanding
Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
hands bites ingratitude
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
hands accomplices can-do
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice. Elie Wiesel