Quotes about hands
hands flying way
I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. David Morse
hands ideas two
What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones. Carl Sagan
hands phones house
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii. Buffy Sainte-Marie
hands water wish
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream. Bryce Courtenay
hands giving political
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Cesare Pavese
hands ecology archeology
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand. Carlos Salinas de Gortari
hands television world
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
hands brain spirit
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
hands civilization female
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. Camille Paglia
hands games focus
My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand. Cal Ripken, Jr.
hands car feminist
A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture. Caitlin Moran
hands tables reader
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands? Bruno Schulz
hands class answers
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand. Catherynne M. Valente
hands care want
We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands Carl Icahn
hands scratches opinion
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. Carl Hiaasen
hands giving generosity
O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. William Shakespeare
hands last sneak time took
We're not going to sneak up on them like I think we did the last time. I think they kind of took us for granted, but this time we know we've got our hands full.
hands left-hand have-courage
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles Lindbergh
hands dirt trump
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold! Charles Lamb
hands light self
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. Aimee Bender
hands world streets
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
hands people patriotism
I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust. Ai Weiwei
hands pyramids people
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
hands tvs politician
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. Bob Woodward
hands guy hahaha
Humour is often linked to shared experience. Like, a guy gets up and says, "Have you noticed public restrooms have really inefficient hand-dryers?" Oh my God, yes I have, hahaha, really good point, they should... fix that. It's good to know that somebody finally gets me! Bo Burnham
hands pants ive-learned
I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants. Billy Joel
hands voice guy
That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice. Bill Klem
hands law israel
I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society. Benjamin Netanyahu
hands praying murder
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.
hands imagination understanding
The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission. Edward Hirsch
hands law wife
In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner. Edward Gibbon
hands cities history
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.
hands luxury poverty
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.