Quotes about hand
hands numbers people
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. Samuel Johnson
hands mind acquisition
The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
hands two arms
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
hands roots cards
I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with. Ricky Jay
hands appreciate league
I told myself that if I ever make it to the big leagues that I would be the one to appreciate the fans. Take a little time out to sign autographs and shake their hands and say hello to them. Rickey Henderson
hands guy fists
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. Ricardo Montalban
hands safety citizens
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. Robert Dale Owen
hands strings attacking
I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings. Ritchie Blackmore
hands lays
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours. Richard Powers
hands romance enemy
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. Richard Le Gallienne
hands forever promise
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
hands long bitterness
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him. Tullian Tchividjian
hands grace down-and
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
hands grace scare
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
hands goofy comedy
I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely. Tracy Spiridakos
hands my-boyfriend stories
My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
hands nails needs
I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim Tori Amos
hands use wells
If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.
hands tears knows
You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand
hands trying records
I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.
hands arms cargo
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay. Umberto Guidoni
hands brain way
There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other. Richard Dawkins
hands knives people
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed. Robinson Jeffers
hands laughing birth-control
Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone. Robin Williams
hands feet hey
she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough. Veronica Roth
hands curves faces
He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.
hands people television
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people. Vince Gilligan
hands brain legs
The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs. Vikas Swarup
hands royal naked
When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos Robert Graves
hands poetry trying
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
hands monsters horror
You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you're not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster's there again. That cannot be allowed to happen. Rudy Giuliani
hands president bills
This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.
hands mind guilt
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.