Quotes about hands
hands essentials logic
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it. Albert Camus
hands photograph boxes
I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph. Annie Leibovitz
hands painting chapters
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. Annie Dillard
hands simplicity healthy
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
hands jeans long
I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes. Clemence Poesy
hands multitasking distraction
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. Clay Shirky
hands order matter
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal. Daniel J. Boorstin
hands alcohol drug
Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on. D. H. Lawrence
hands melting faces
And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.
hands benches matter
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive. Conrad Black
hands two church
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! Daniel Defoe
hands presidential speech
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. David Frum
hands pages doe
Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...' David Coverdale
handsome burden
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. David Bailey
hands impact tools
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user. Dan Brown
hands wish confucianism
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. Confucius
hands election politician
Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
hands rose giving
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
hands forever unions
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. Daniel Webster
hands class political
There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.
hands forever unions
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
hands laughing people
Thank you people that are laughing with your hand away from your mouth. That joke is clearly not for everyone, but I enjoy watching people that don't laugh make the people that do laugh feel shitty about themselves. Daniel Tosh
hands spoons excited
I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle. Dane Cook
hands self-love environmental
You have established the earth and it continues. All things stand this day according to your directions. For all things are your servants (Ps. 119:91). God himself loves the earth dearly and never takes his hands off it. And because he loves it and it is good, our care of it is also eternal work and a part of our eternal life. Dallas Willard
hands oil use
Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing... pencil is more my medium than wet paint. Cy Twombly
hands ducks feet
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck. Cyndi Lauper
hands issues people
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have. David Cameron
hands bottles might
Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail Dave Matthews
hands your-side ideas
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side. David Lehman
hands ideas keys
There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge. David Levithan
hands years feelings
Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.
hands two iphone
Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank. David Letterman
hands june president
President Bush says now he is sticking to his plan for handing over power to the Iraqis on June 30. It's also part of his plan to hand over power to John Kerry on January 20.