Quotes about hands
hands glasses drunk
But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins. Koren Zailckas
hands sometimes slap
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that. Kiri Te Kanawa
hands play perfect
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit. Oliver Goldsmith
hands selfishness virtue
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
hands what-matters gardening
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. Margaret Atwood
hands people interest
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
hands skulls choices
What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.
hands order law
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. Marcus Tullius Cicero
hands age body
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
handsome bulls kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.
hands sensual age
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
hands religion sacred
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]
hands people speak
For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands. Marcel Carne
hands bigger universe
There's a bigger universe at hand. Marc Webb
hands russia people
The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. Marc Almond
hands trying arms
If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm. Kinky Friedman
hands training cameras
For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand. Kiana Tom
hands talking people
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums. Kid Rock
hands effort together
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. Ken Mehlman
hands editors mercy
You're at the mercy of the editors' hands. Kelly LeBrock
hands hygiene obsessive-compulsive
I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. Kelly Clarkson
hands safe danger
We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands. Katie Davis
hands dna needs
I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film. Kathryn Bigelow
hands europe britain
I have the money and they won't get their hands on it. Margaret Thatcher
hands invisible-hand creative
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.
hands government people
Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government. Margaret Chase Smith
hands luck honest
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature! Mark Twain
hands use shapes
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. Leonard Slatkin
hands done film
We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Leonardo DiCaprio
hands each-day next
I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.. to make each day count.
hands fortune behinds
When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald. Leonardo da Vinci
hands space body
Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.
hands rivers lasts
Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.