Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Osler

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

William O. Douglas

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy

William Penn

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

Yao Ming

Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

Zygmunt Bauman

Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.

Zig Ziglar

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.

Brendan Haywood

Right now, starting or not starting, it's the playoffs. It's about winning. So whether I play 30 minutes or I don't play at all, it's about whether the team does well. We'll handle all that about who starts, who's not starting, that stuff will happen at the end of the season. We'll talk about that this summer.

Dee Brown

Right when it left my hand I thought it was good, then I saw it was long. I usually make them. It just didn't go in for me.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

In times like these, let us remember that justice is served in the courtroom, not in the media or at the hands of individuals.

Brian Smith

In the long term, we're going to need something more to work with. This isn't going to handle a lot of growth.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out infriendship, never in want.

Norman Lear

Instead of keeping it in private hands on some wall someplace, this will travel to schools, to libraries in 50 states.

Instead of just throwing them in a cell, trying to wash your hands of it, you know what? Give them the treatment they need.

I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.

Steve Phillips

It has such sentimental value. Everyone who had a hand in working on the truck remembered it as a kid.

Annika Sorenstam

I just don't think I can handle that.

I just did whatever I had to do to get my hand on it.

Sundar Pichai

By letting them personalize the toolbar, we're putting power in the hands of users.

Clapping with the right hand only will not produce a noise

Alice McDermott

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

His hand worked its way up her leg, inside her shorts, inside her panties. And the defendant placed his hand on her genitalia.

Caleb said Damian put his hand over Jacob's mouth until he turned blue.

Dominik Hasek

I'm very worried, but on the other hand I don't want to give up.

I'm tired of the hand grenades being thrown in my path. I want soccer. I want it now.

I need to have a strong faith, because no one else could handle this.

I'm not the callow youth of yesteryear. I'm a man of steel, honed on the handle of life.

Andy Summers

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Tom Ammiano

I'm ashamed. It played into the hands of all that is corporate.

If there's somebody else there involved in the killing, wouldn't you want to keep them from killing again? What is it ? a possible killer in the hand is worth another killer in the bush? It doesn't make any sense.

Robin Wright

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.