Quotes about hands
hands giving joy
None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands. Malcolm Forbes
hands grace wonder
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? Mahalia Jackson
hands practice knitting
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . . Maimonides
hands government tools
Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
hands tyrants may
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always. Mahatma Gandhi
hands spinning wheels
I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.
hands silence together
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
hands india widows
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
hands effort results
It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
hands choices favors
Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady? Gail Carson Levine
hands swim made
I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim. Gail Carriger
hands numbers long
Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers. Fred Thompson
hands revolution republican
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. Napoleon Bonaparte
hands people ambitious
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
hands giving gains
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
hands order accepted
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
hands religion world
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
hands two world
There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day. Og Mandino
hands interesting trying
Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know! Norman Rockwell
hands order law
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. Orrin Hatch
hands government regulation
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
hands december lord
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet Orson Pratt
hands body doe
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand. Oscar de la Renta
hands imperfection style
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand. Orhan Pamuk
hands giving excellence
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark... Orison Swett Marden
hands mind excellence
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
hands class people
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.
hands people young
I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands. Oliver Sacks
hands effort unseen
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
hands lord
Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge! Oliver Cromwell
hands people dangerous
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow. Octavia Butler
hands heaven body
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body! Novalis
hands should-have gone
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide. Norton Juster