Quotes about hands
hands environmental age
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after? George Santayana
hands here-i-am grace
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!
hands years humanity
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades. George McGovern
hands years president
If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.
hands fire cold
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! Fyodor Dostoevsky
hands giving independence
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.
hands alive philosopher
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
hands greek islam
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. Franz Grillparzer
hands mind slavery
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
hands logic teach
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point. Jeff Lindsay
hands sun heat
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. Jeanette Winterson
hands thumbs way
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.
hands world care
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
hands broken atheism
My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken. Jewel
hands accountability upset
Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts. Jeremy Stoppelman
hands two world
I can change the world with my own two hands Jack Johnson
hands guy want
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons. J. B. Smoove
hands wicked moments
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop. J. C. Ryle
hands parent trying
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
hands class attachment
I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that. Isabel Lucas
hands would-be satan
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. Isaac Watts
hands laziness satan
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
hands hopefully laying protect
Hopefully our O-line will protect me and keep him from getting in there and laying his hands on me.
hands
He's a handful, when you can get your hands on him.
hands one-love hardest
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
hands hours
The hour-hand of life.
hands honey too-much
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
hands government fortune
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. George Bernard Shaw
hands design machines
I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
hands technique cameras
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
hands miracle natural-phenomena
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
hands six fingers
I was born with six fingers on each hand. Gemma Arterton
hands guy noses
Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy. Gena Showalter