Quotes about hands
hands mirrors judging
When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way. Leonardo da Vinci
hands long important
Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm. Paul Quantrill
hands people movement
Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade. Paul Rice
hands police left-hand
I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me. Paul Reubens
hands guy important
I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me Paul Reiser
hands terror-attacks plot
If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand. Patrick McHenry
hands two differences
Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.' But suppose you had to choose?' Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.' There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha! Patrick O'Brian
hands say-anything want
I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in. Patrick Ness
hands mastery admitting
The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands. Patrick Rothfuss
hands roots discipline
There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational discipline. Religion, on the other hand, is fundamentally trans-rational. Both of them attempt to solve problems, but since their methodology is vastly different, they can't help but come into conflict.
hands suits
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
hands slippery-slope boundaries
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. Leon Kass
hands numbers community
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand. Learned Hand
hands differences charity
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. Laurence Leamer
hands littles different
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work. Larry Wall
hands two mind-your-own-business
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. P. J. O'Rourke
hands drawing perception
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. Pablo Picasso
hands feet giving
Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet. Paul Signac
hands issues levels
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place Paul Muldoon
hands lord-henry dry
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. Oscar Wilde
hands sorrow wounds
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
hands ordinary bags
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
hands ruined
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
hands choices style
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist. Ivan Illich
hands things-in-life whole
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life. Ivan Turgenev
hands library facts
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. Huston Smith
hands years political
Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
hands soul praying
We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands. Harry S Truman
hands world architect
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
hands way want
I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.
hands people want
If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
hands giving economics
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
hands brain visible
The hand is the visible part of the brain. Immanuel Kant