Quotes about hand
hands lunch
Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold. Samuel Johnson
hands mind influence
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
hands doubt mind
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
hands left-hand prosperity
Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
hands medicine advice
That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.
hands mind singing
I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use sustain of the bow and the ability to slide the non-fretted notes, like singing. Sam Bush
hands years nuts
Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate. Saffron Burrows
hands joy victory
Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are hours. Ruhollah Khomeini
hands reaching reach-out
So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear. Roxane Gay
hands fog haze
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. Rowan Williams
hands gestures nations
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance. Ronald Reagan
hands light feelings
The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths. Robert Jordan
hands tree fool
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
hands brave mouths
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
hands two lost
Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
hands bottles
Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand. Robert Johnson
hands years answers
I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand. Roddy Doyle
hands dirt soap
Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration? Robertson Davies
hands space looks
Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space. Robert Stack
hands quality intimate
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. Willa Cather
hands feet america
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. Warren E. Burger
hands sky crumbling
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering. And if I'd end up by roaring with all of its power of lungs and more - the comets, distressed, would wring their hands and from the sky's roof leap in a fever. Vladimir Mayakovsky
hands safety calm
I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn't dare to take things in hand? Vincent Van Gogh
hands class people
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags. Vladimir Lenin
hands authority unlimited
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
hands democracy citizens
Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
hands lovely lovely-things
What lovely things Thy hand hath made. Walter de La Mare
hands shoes ties
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous. Walter Bagehot
hands fields cameras
The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action. Walter Benjamin
hands imagination police
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
hands tools made
Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands. William Blake
hands wings want
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
hands entertaining hand-in-hand
Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand. Wendy Williams