Quotes about hands
hands trying records
I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. Tori Amos
hands arms cargo
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay. Umberto Guidoni
hands brain way
There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other. Richard Dawkins
hands knives people
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed. Robinson Jeffers
hands laughing birth-control
Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone. Robin Williams
hands two people
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority. Robert Ringer
hands people trying
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?" Robert Reich
hands problem cases
The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand. Robert Neelly Bellah
hands chaos divine
Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. Robert Moses
hands interesting boring
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. Robert Silverberg
hands tunnels light
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. Robert Lowell
hands economic economic-power
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few. Robert Ludlum
hands mind
Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands... Sarah Kay
hands years together
After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Sara Gruen
hands house shining
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality. Sara Teasdale
hands shapes mechanic
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
hands giving helping
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand. Samuel Rutherford
hands heaven covenant
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.
hands numbers people
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. Samuel Johnson
hands mind acquisition
The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
hands quality intimate
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. Willa Cather
hands feet america
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. Warren E. Burger
hands sky crumbling
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering. And if I'd end up by roaring with all of its power of lungs and more - the comets, distressed, would wring their hands and from the sky's roof leap in a fever. Vladimir Mayakovsky
hands safety calm
I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn't dare to take things in hand? Vincent Van Gogh
hands class people
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags. Vladimir Lenin
hands authority unlimited
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
hands democracy citizens
Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
hands lovely lovely-things
What lovely things Thy hand hath made. Walter de La Mare
hands shoes ties
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous. Walter Bagehot
hands fields cameras
The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action. Walter Benjamin
hands imagination police
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
hands tools made
Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands. William Blake
hands wings want
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die