Quotes about hand
hands giving people
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. Eberhard Weber
hands moments legislature
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. Ed Koch
hands
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands. Elizabeth Moon
hands said stoker
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section. Elizabeth Kostova
hands dancer
No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it. Elizabeth Berkley
hands white lilies
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
hands next-day pay
I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees. Edmund Wilson
hands ideas advice
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.
hands giving enough
Give us enough but with a sparing hand. Edmund Waller
hands keys people
People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future. Bill Nye
hands able pockets
Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time. Bill Murray
hands-up hands trying
You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.
hands handicapped
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands. Bess Truman
hands feet important
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination. Chad Smith
hands knowing want
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. Carol Shields
hands forever slavery
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me. Carlos Castaneda
hands understanding guardian
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
hands want
I don't want to hold you hand! C. S. Lewis
hand next torch
We have to hand the torch to the next generation.
handle road
We have to handle the road and crowd.
hand needed steady
We have needed a strong, steady hand in this party. Howard Dean
hands i-can
I can clap with one hand. Aaron Tveit
handle knew main poised remain runs stay talented tried trying
We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.
hands law government
It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens. Alan K. Simpson
hands leader success-or-failure
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands. Alan Keyes
hands answers rochester
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester Charlotte Bronte
hands heaven gold
... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'
hands giving wish
I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted.
hands voice storm
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands. Charles de Lint
hands world ifs
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. Charles Dickens
hands people lasts
Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand. Chevy Chase
hands kind shakes
I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.
hands brave scary
So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: "Chances are, you're not going to be mauled by a bear." Cheryl Strayed