Quotes about hands
hands fascism
Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans. John T. Flynn
hands people black
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. John Shelton Reed
hands giving justice
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative. John Shelby Spong
hands fortune frugality
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. John Ray
hands gloves firsts
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! James Joyce
hands water i-can
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?
hands long
The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. James Robertson
hands sleeves
Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves. James Rollins
hands shadow savages
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.
hands likes wonder
I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. James Salter
hands devil weapons
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point. James Russell Lowell
hands play research
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.
hands yesterday humanity
For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
hands able actors
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. Laurence Sterne
hands editors play
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer Kyle MacLachlan
hands two gloves
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two. Libba Bray
hands
The hand you hold the longest is your own.
hands sky sometimes
When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.
hands forever magic
It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.
hands stones moss
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone. Gary Cherone
hands political expediency
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand Friedrich Durrenmatt
hands order watches
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement. Friedrich August von Hayek
hands problem economy
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
hands community society
One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community. Franklin D. Roosevelt
hands voice track
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness. Jon Landau
hands surfing hurricanes
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing. Jon Foreman
hands territory doe
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. John Yoo
hands judging cash
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. Johnny Cash
hands two bills
Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. Luis Bunuel
hands wind water
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. Lowell Thomas
hands cities car
In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll find lots of gawkers and gloaters, but rarely will you find someone willing to extend a helping hand. Lu Xun
hands long body
Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body. Louis Oosthuizen
hands waiting experts
Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek) I’ll find Jericho. (Astrid) Um, could you at least wait until that thing’s housebroken? (Jericho) Sherrilyn Kenyon