Quotes about hand
hands missionary graves
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward. William Carey
hands years world
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? William C. Bryant
hands land poetry
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil. William Butler Yeats
hands tests extravagance
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
hands mind half
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
hands sea land
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand....
hands earth done
Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands. Will Carleton
hands mouths lions
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth. Wilhelm Steinitz
hands psychology individual
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question. Wilhelm Wundt
hands psychology process
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.
hands ideas long
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.
hands giving psychology
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.
hands political growing
There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics. Walter Wriston
hands weight bears
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. Walter Savage Landor
hands want outcomes
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge. Walter Gilbert
hands america justice
It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court. Walter F. Mondale
hands opinion should
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. William Jones
hands fairy individual
There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals. Winona LaDuke
hands law unjust
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system. Winifred Holtby
hands silent veto
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. Winston Churchill
hands law government
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands. Rick Warren
hands greek exotic
I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour. Rick Riordan
hands feet hey
she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough. Veronica Roth
hands curves faces
He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.
hands royal naked
When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos Robert Graves
hands poetry trying
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
hands lunch
Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold. Samuel Johnson
hands mind influence
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
hands joy victory
Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are hours. Ruhollah Khomeini
hands reaching reach-out
So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear. Roxane Gay
hands fog haze
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. Rowan Williams
hands brave mouths
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die? Robert Jordan
hands two lost
Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?