Quotes about hand
hands agriculture oats
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. Alexander Pope
hands devil shoulders
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder. Albert Speer
hands want
I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick. Albert Pujols
hands people enemy
The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be. Debbie Ford
hands surrender solve
Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is turning them over into the hands of God. E. Stanley Jones
hands knees nails
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him. E. Stanley Jones
hands shields faces
When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place! E. M. Forster
hands brain occupation
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands. Dorothy Thompson
hands sorrow unbroken
Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? Dylan Thomas
hands tears flow
Hands have not tears to flow. Dylan Thomas
hands world outcomes
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future. Dwight D. Eisenhower
hands voting republic
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. Dwight D. Eisenhower
hands people killing
If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke? Doug Stanhope
hands idols people
People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!" Doug Stanhope
hands tasks computer
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Douglas Adams
hands needs helping
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost. Douglas Adams
hands opinion difficult
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever. Douglas Adams
hands order years
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship? Dorothea Dix
hands focus looks
To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; Donna Tartt
hands sometimes poor
Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well. Donna Tartt
hands style elegance
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. Donna Tartt
hands skeletons legs
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton. Donald Johanson
hands skulls body
Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare. Donald Johanson
hands doubt done
I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show. Don Rickles
hands swings texas
Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. Craig McDonald
hands lines matter
I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands. Constantin Brancusi
hands weapons newspapers
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands. Claud Cockburn
hands shots
I'm not wild about hand-held shots. Claude Chabrol
hands-up offering hands
Offering a hand up is not a hand-out. Clara Barton
hands police needs
The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it. Claire McCaskill
hands brain cameras
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. Claude Levi-Strauss
hands gorillas ishmael
five severed fingers do not make a hand Daniel Quinn
hands organization safety
I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is. Cynthia Carroll