Quotes about hands
hands careers quality
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. Ambrose Bierce
hands arms pockets
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
hands two news
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them. Anthony Holden
hands order rivers
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river. Alice Oswald
hands jewels games
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where? Anne Morrow Lindbergh
hands creative mind
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
hands giving different
But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel. Darren Aronofsky
hands views acting
When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything. Danica McKellar
hands ducks mind
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand. Dani Shapiro
hands bookshelves
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. Dag Hammarskjold
hands color names
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. Cormac McCarthy
hands trying
I'd love to try my hand at something else. Colin Firth
hands cities kansas-city
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone. Dante Hall
hands goal catholic
Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests. Dan Rather
hands sound compliment
When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping. Dan Fogelberg
hands lazy laziness
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. Cyril Connolly
hands people
I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people. Daniel Negreanu
hands people attention
Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.
hands i-have-learned gods-will
I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands. Corrie Ten Boom
hands sometimes enough
If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.
hands order judging
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
hands want palms
If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. Cliff Richard
hands soul stories
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
hands want balls
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you. Dwight Gooden
hands movement body
I love to sing some Beyonce - ya know, like 'All the Single Ladies.' I'll sing that - maybe not with the body shakin' - but I'll have a little bit of the hand movement going on. Dwyane Wade
hands years mind
Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult. Colin Quinn
hands people united-states
It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult. Colin Powell
hands land long
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers. Andrew Johnson
hands over-you corporations
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. Andrew Jackson
hands sensitive shakes
I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time. Amy Schumer
hands magic fiction
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left... Amy Tan
hands experience taught
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. Ally Sheedy
hands actors directors
But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer. Andy Serkis