Quotes about hand
hands knowing purpose
Roger Scruton This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.
hands goal people
Roger Scruton State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.
hands rock-and-roll rocks
Rod Stewart Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.
hands notes i-can
Robin Trower I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.
hands pockets fingers
Willem de Kooning Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
hands microphones folks
Willard Scott Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
hands giving people
Willem Dafoe Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
hands play long
Whittaker Chambers It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.
hands impact government
Ronald Reagan If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
hands lips purpose
Sai Baba Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.
hands always-trying giving
Saint Augustine God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
hands holy-eucharist body
Saint Augustine Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.
hands giving empty
Saint Augustine God gives where he finds empty hands.
hands dip pot
Wole Soyinka The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
hands ethnicity people
Wole Soyinka Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
hands dancing littles
Wilson Pickett Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.
hands phones cards
Will Self So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
hands prison company
Will Rogers A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
hands looks politician
Will Rogers You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
hands long republican
Will Rogers There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
hands interesting problem
W. Clement Stone It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.
hands eels water
W. C. Fields The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
hands veils telling-the-truth
Zadie Smith Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.
hands rainbow sorrow
Zora Neale Hurston I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
hands hollywood difficult
Zack Snyder It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
hands impossible eternity
Yukio Mishima For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
hands
Yukio Mishima Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
hands ties people
Yoweri Museveni I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.
hands issues president
Vladimir Putin In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
hands order justice
William Graham Sumner The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.
hands drawing earth
William Gurnall All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
hands walking-away ruffian
William Goldman He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.