Quotes about hands
hands careers faces
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. Kit Williams
hands pins crunch
Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch. Nicole Richie
hands use shapes
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. Leonard Slatkin
hands feet giving
Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet. Paul Signac
hands path lord
If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good. Pope Benedict XVI
hands color people
I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people. Peter Max
hands people effort
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. Peter Lynch
hands trying easier
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. Quintilian
hands desire want
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing. Quentin Crisp
hands practice use
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use. Pliny the Elder
hands fool
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. Plutarch
hands bird fool
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
hands forever delight
There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them. Phillips Brooks
hands unhappy use
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands. Polykarp Kusch
hands accepting
Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another. Pope John XXIII
hands white rose
Whenever I have a problem, I ask the Saint (Thérèse of Lisieux) not to solve it, but to take it into her hands and to help me accept it and I almost always receive a white rose as a sign. Pope Francis
hands brain different
Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand. Naveen Jain
hands needs ifs
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
hands immigration transition
By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. Moshe Sharett
hands gaza-strip ideas
The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand. Moshe Dayan
hands suffering devil
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand. Mother Teresa
hands lips helping
Helping hands are better than Praying Lips
hands people understanding
Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
hands yesterday worry
The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.
hands done lasts
She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up." p. 382 Monica Ali
hands mirrors pieces
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
hands baghdad hell
God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
hands anxiety littles
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand. Peter Stuyvesant
hands people mind
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands. Terry Pratchett
hands mad interesting
It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.
hands together praying
You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.
hands trying bananas
If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
hands stuck-up abstract
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.