Quotes about hands
hands interesting decision
The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium. Andy Garcia
hands people
By your hand the people shall live Andy Andrews
hands events chains
By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.
hands body littles
I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body. Andrea Bocelli
hands take-my-hand medicare
I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir. Allen West
hands jars cookies
I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar
hands tree use
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then. Aesop
hands tyrants evil
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
hands smitten feathers
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten. Aeschylus
hands
We'll take anything we can get our hands on.
hands justice lay searching
What I'm searching for is not vengeance. It's justice. It's frustrating, because you want to lay hands on the perpetrator immediately you want justice to be done immediately.
hands safety preparation
So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him. Alexander MacLaren
hands history clerks
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation. A. J. P. Taylor
hands zeus hephaestus
The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.
hands agony blood
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
hands clothes life-and-death
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder. Agatha Christie
hands age detectives
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
hands sharks bats
Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray! Adam West
hands trying saturn
I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them. Adam Young
hands maintenance rewards
The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast. Adam Smith
hands invisible-hand liberty
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.
hands community church
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches. Abraham Kuyper
hands people creative
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. Abraham Maslow
hands doe
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things. Aleksandar Hemon
hands desire world
It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand. Alec Waugh
hands motive shakes
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. Alec Guinness
hands plums verbs
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language. Aleister Crowley
hands rick
Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All of them. Betty Wright
hands people world
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died. Alexander the Great
hands fire burning
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs? Alexander Theroux
hands money
We'd like to get the money in their hands now, if we can.
hands passing
We were all over the place. We were in passing lanes, we were deflecting passes, getting our hands on the ball, getting on the boards, and we were getting out and running. Rafer Alston
hands knows
We don't have to put our hands out anymore. He knows the drill. Ashley Jones