Quotes about hand
hands style definitions
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. Andre Maurois
hands dirt lows
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt. Andrew Davies
hands injustice burden
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. Ambrose Bierce
hands skills able
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
hands littles degrees
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
hands action humans
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
hands bird
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
hands tree splinters
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
hands careers quality
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.
hands arms pockets
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
hands two news
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them. Anthony Holden
hands order rivers
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river. Alice Oswald
hands jewels games
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where? Anne Morrow Lindbergh
hands creative mind
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
hands take-my-hand medicare
I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir. Allen West
hands jars cookies
I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar
hands tree use
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then. Aesop
hands tyrants evil
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
hands smitten feathers
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten. Aeschylus
hands
We'll take anything we can get our hands on.
handled sacramento san sit
We'll sit back now and see what San Antonio and Sacramento do. We handled our business. Jason Terry
hands justice lay searching
What I'm searching for is not vengeance. It's justice. It's frustrating, because you want to lay hands on the perpetrator immediately you want justice to be done immediately.
hands safety preparation
So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him. Alexander MacLaren
hands grace masters
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. Alexander Pope
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.
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.
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 years care
I would have said get out of Syria; get out - if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can't just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn't care. It was hand-to-hand combat. Donald Trump