Hand Quotes
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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John Acton
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One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.
Elinor Wylie
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The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.
Jennifer Palmieri
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When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
Jesse Harris
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I don't believe that lack of intelligence and appreciation for lowbrow comedy go hand-in-hand necessarily.
Jimmy Kimmel
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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
David McCullough
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But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
James Payn
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If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
Oswald Chambers
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My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.
Mark Steyn
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My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.
Andy Serkis
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
Louise Erdrich
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I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
Jimmy Smits
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Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
Lionel Barrymore
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I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
Pierce Brosnan
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The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.
Robert Baden-Powell
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For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.
Lady Gaga
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson
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Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.
Dalai Lama
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When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.
Daniel Humm
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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
Jennifer Egan
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The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.
Anna Katharine Green
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A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I
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Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
Ben Harper