Quotes about hand
hands here-i-am grace
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here! George Santayana
hands years humanity
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades. George McGovern
hands years president
If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.
hands fire cold
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! Fyodor Dostoevsky
hands giving independence
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.
hands alive philosopher
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
hands greek islam
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. Franz Grillparzer
hands mind slavery
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
hands logic teach
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point. Jeff Lindsay
hands sun heat
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. Jeanette Winterson
hands thumbs way
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.
hands world care
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
hands broken atheism
My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken. Jewel
hands accountability upset
Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts. Jeremy Stoppelman
hands people comedian
I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay." Jen Kirkman
hands office guy
The president receives an inspector general's report that the Office of Personnel Management could be hacked into; they had antiquated firewalls; 23 million files have been - are in the hands of the Chinese allegedly, including, by the way, members of the press, it turns out, last week. Maybe that's the only part that's good news, so that you guys can get a feel for what it's like now to see this type of attack. Jeb Bush
hands world want
It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other. Jeaniene Frost
hands mind goes-on
Ian grinned at her, trailing a pale hand down his chest. “Luscious, aren‟t I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don‟t mind.
hands soul feelings
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. George Eliot
hands brain fiction
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand. Gary Shteyngart
hands directors film
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. Gary Oldman
hands knowing everyday
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
hands wonder perceive
The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God. Frank Borman
hands long tongue
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] George Herbert
hands land washing
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
hands evil afar
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]
hands stones smooth
A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
hands gold lost
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
hands gold sticks
Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.
hands keys car
Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident? Chris Van Hollen
hands alex
Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head Chris Kamara
hands clothes dresses
I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons. Chris Isaak
hands decision cry
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand F. Scott Fitzgerald