Hand Quotes
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We'll just wait and see. If it gets out of hand it gets out of hand, we're just here to play cricket.
Andrew Symonds
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I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?
Angela Ahrendts
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed' - and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
J. C. Ryle
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Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
Kevin Mitnick
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Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand.
Elizabeth Armstrong
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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
Elisabeth Elliot
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
Stokely Carmichael
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Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.
Chrystia Freeland
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I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.
Joanne Rowling
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My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.
Gene Luen Yang
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Did one man write Shui Hu Chuan, or did it grow to its present shape, added to, rearranged, deepened and developed by many minds and many a hand, in different centuries? Who can now tell? They are dead. They lived in their day and wrote what in their day they saw and heard, but of themselves they have told nothing.
Pearl S. Buck
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Like a led victim, to my death I'll go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
John Dryden
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter
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You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe Biden
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I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
Jonathan Dimbleby
