Quotes about hands
hands suits
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
hands slippery-slope boundaries
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. Leon Kass
hands numbers community
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand. Learned Hand
hands differences charity
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. Laurence Leamer
hands faces sides
You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back. Jodi Picoult
hands promise enemy
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?
hands world empires
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world. John Gresham Machen
hands ducks together
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses. John Green
hands long hey
I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.
hands littles population
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.
hands way slave
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions. Patton Oswalt
hands people vision
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands. Patti Smith
hands ifs prize
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize. P. T. Barnum
hands doctors life-and-death
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. P. D. James
hands class government
The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do. P. J. O'Rourke
hands unseen ifs
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. P. G. Wodehouse
hands fire house
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. Ovid
hands length tolerable
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
hands royalty firm
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
hands fire may
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
hands restraint grows
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.
hands people fortunate
What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are? Paul Newman
hands two people
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing. Paul Brown
hands people hammers
Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care. Paul Bloom
hands simplicity sincerity
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. Mary Wollstonecraft
hands break-even people
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry. Marya Hornbacher
hands judging might
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Oswald Chambers
hands waiting
To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
hands break-out may
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
hands people pick-me-up
Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me! Miriam Makeba
hands dirt sin
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt. R. C. Sproul
hands focus mind
To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
hands long people
There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.