Quotes about hands
hands doe wonderful
It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all. Charles Spurgeon
hands yield doe
God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?
hands biting stealing
[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him. Charles R. Jackson
hands names space
She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St. Charles Portis
hands purpose might
You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop. Charles R. Swindoll
hands waiting desire
Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept. Ayn Rand
hands tree looks
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .
hands feet ties
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.
hands government self-control
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. Benjamin Disraeli
hands generosity given
The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away. Carl Sandburg
hands aggravation doubt
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible. Cao Cao
hands want vices
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. C. S. Lewis
hands always-trying soul
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.
hands fire water
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
hands profit civilisation
Civilisation and profits go hand in hand. Calvin Coolidge
hands profound looks
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Burt Ward
hands years two
Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU. Celso Amorim
hands people want
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. Cesar Chavez
hands one-day today
Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow. Catherine McAuley
hands challenges goes-on
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. Carnie Wilson
hands mind world
The hand is where the mind meets the world. Carl Zimmer
hands victory defeat
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands. Alan Keyes
hands world turn-the-other-cheek
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. Al-Waleed bin Talal
hands order enemy
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness. Alain Badiou
hands telephones beloved
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. Alain de Botton
hands interview kinda people sheet skill
One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have. Casey Neistat
hands paid
My hands were in the movie. I got paid $45.
hands loosen
My hands loosen up. My hands use to be so stiff. They loosen up. He's very good.
hands major strategy
Obviously, his hands are all over the .Net strategy, the strategy with the Xbox, and any major acquisition.
hands obviously throw wish
Obviously at halftime, you don't throw up your hands and say that's it. But it was a big play and one I wish I had back. Kerry Collins
hands two doe
Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand. Eddie Van Halen
hands years balance
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
hands honor weapons
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands. Ed Parker