Quotes about hand
hands eras financial
Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. Mary Lou Retton
hands knives civilization
It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?. Mark Twain
hands soul looks
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.
hands comforting trying
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
hands knowing broken
For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam. Marian Keyes
hands weather giving
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. Nicholas Meyer
hands ducks together
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses. John Green
hands long hey
I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.
hands littles population
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.
hands way slave
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions. Patton Oswalt
hands people vision
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands. Patti Smith
hands ifs prize
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize. P. T. Barnum
hands doctors life-and-death
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. P. D. James
hands class government
The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do. P. J. O'Rourke
hands unseen ifs
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. P. G. Wodehouse
hands fire house
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. Ovid
hands length tolerable
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
hands royalty firm
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
hands fire may
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
hands restraint grows
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.
hands people fortunate
What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are? Paul Newman
hands two people
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing. Paul Brown
hands people hammers
Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care. Paul Bloom
hands simplicity sincerity
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. Mary Wollstonecraft
hands break-even people
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry. Marya Hornbacher
hands judging might
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Oswald Chambers
hands waiting
To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
hands break-out may
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
hands survival elbows
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. Paul Samuelson
hands pleasure gratification
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. Michel de Montaigne
hands promise variation
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
hands utah government
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. Michael O'Donoghue
hands crowds arms
Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength. Markus Zusak