Quotes about hands
hands doe
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things. Aleksandar Hemon
hands desire world
It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand. Alec Waugh
hands motive shakes
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. Alec Guinness
hands plums verbs
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language. Aleister Crowley
hands lays
Change lays her hand not upon the truth. Algernon Charles Swinburne
hands issues deeds
God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.
hands creative roles
If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished. Alfred Molina
hands ideas secret
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. Alfred North Whitehead
hands order ideas
The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life. Alfred Jodl
hands voice goes-on
And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Alfred Lord Tennyson
hands house degradation
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon. Alexander Berkman
hands devil accepting
Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control. Alex Ferguson
hands mind shapes
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind. Aldous Huxley
hands solitude feelings
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
hands add fundamentals
On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance. Albert Einstein
hands perception impression
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
hands evaluation facts
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.
hands insightful secret
He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands
hands political riches
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. Alexander Hamilton
hands credit able
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.
hands fists truth-and-justice
We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
hands
We'll take anything we can get our hands on.
hands justice lay searching
What I'm searching for is not vengeance. It's justice. It's frustrating, because you want to lay hands on the perpetrator immediately you want justice to be done immediately.
hands safety preparation
So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him. Alexander MacLaren
hands grace masters
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. Alexander Pope
hands agriculture oats
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
hands people enemy
The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be. Debbie Ford
hands trying matter
Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing. Doyle Brunson
hands expectations bird
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence. Dorothy Day
hands said made
Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ... Anne Sexton
hands mythology i-can
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. Anne Rice
hands vampire red
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
hands land ideas
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands. Anna Deavere Smith