Quotes about hand
hands benefits republic
Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic. Thomas Jefferson
hands competition want
Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there; for there competition brings it down to the minimum value.
hands people memorial
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.
hands taxation simplify
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.
hands liberty empty
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
hands haste-makes-waste dry
Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. Robert Herrick
hands life-is i-trust-you
I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.' Tammy Faye Bakker
handbags lovers bigs
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me. Tamsin Egerton
hands giving credit
But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons. Tana French
hands arms bones
My arm bones looked like chicken bones. Tammy Duckworth
hands generations culture
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence? Tammy Bruce
hands desert grit
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit. Taisen Deshimaru
hands government leader
As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change. Tadashi Yanai
hands brain working-together
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together. Tadao Ando
hands talking giving
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature? Swami Vivekananda
hands icons grease
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
hands jumping lines
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. Solomon Burke
hands wwe guy
You know what they say about guys with big hands. Stacy Keibler
hands stopping firsts
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope. Stephenie Meyer
hands worry
Don't worry?! You sliced your hand open!
hands mass-destruction luck
If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.
hands groups bars
We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other Stephen Breyer
hands diaries might
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. Steffi Graf
hands gossip tongue
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. Stefan Zweig
hands talking skins
Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet. Sophie Kinsella
hands creation priests
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. Thomas B. Macaulay
hands excitement individual
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.
hands gambling evil
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.
hands liberty taxation
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
hands government definitions
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.
hands fists
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. Thomas Friedman
hands order fists
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. Thom Mayne
hands avalanches enough
As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off. Thom Gunn