Quotes about hand
hands our-future our-lives
Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them. Winston Churchill
hands boredom paint
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
hands silent veto
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
handsome
I never thought of myself as handsome. Willie Aames
hands want smoothies
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie. William Safire
hands feet bird
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. Virginia Woolf
hands moments
But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
hands people progress
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have Woodrow Wilson
hands giving empty
God gives where he finds empty hands. Saint Augustine
hands dip pot
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. Wole Soyinka
hands ethnicity people
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
hands dancing littles
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. Wilson Pickett
hands phones cards
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. Will Self
hands prison company
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. Will Rogers
hands looks politician
You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
hands long republican
There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
hands interesting problem
It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem. W. Clement Stone
hands eels water
The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water. W. C. Fields
hands veils telling-the-truth
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Zadie Smith
hands rainbow sorrow
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. Zora Neale Hurston
hands hollywood difficult
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything. Zack Snyder
hands impossible eternity
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other. Yukio Mishima
hands
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
hands ties people
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method. Yoweri Museveni
hands people enemy
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people Wendell Phillips
hands
We clasp the hands of those who go before us. Wendell Berry
hands action responsible
Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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.