Quotes about hands
hands landscape strange
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. John Ruskin
hands lines firsts
There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.
hands limbs seems
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. John Quincy Adams
hands community taxation
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
hands yield world
We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best. John Owen
hands giving may
We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.
hands office way
Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy. John Milton
hands eden tears
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
hands light ballet
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
hands keys golden
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.
hands long evil
It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand. Miguel de Cervantes
hands utah government
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. Michael O'Donoghue
hands crowds arms
Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength. Markus Zusak
hands sight today
I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets. Mark Twain
hands play sound-judgment
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
hands abuse kind
Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands. Marianne Williamson
hands soul lost
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.
hands racing gears
Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't. Mario Andretti
hands racing trying
If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough
hands taste far-away
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it. Mario Batali
hands evil good-and-evil
Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.... Marilyn Manson
hands enemy warfare
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh. Michael Herr
hands laughing frustrated
I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. Michael Caine
hands knives intense-training
I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance. Melinda Clarke
hands hatred anxiety
It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other. Melanie Klein
hands knows
Just know He has His hands on You Marvin Sapp
hands want scratches
No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you. Michael Grant
hands soul written
Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand Michael Franti
hands up-in-the-air alive
I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.
hands years names
Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks. Michael Chabon
hands stones easy
It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. Menander
hands world treats
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand Mencius
hands needs tasks
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces. Socrates