Hands Quotes
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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.
Ebenezer Elliott
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Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.
Louise Rennison -
My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.
Zebulon Baird Vance -
Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.
Margaret Mitchell -
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.
Casey Neistat -
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
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A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.
D. H. Lawrence -
The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.
Larry Hogan -
What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown -
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.
Sabrina Jeffries -
Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
Patrick Swayze
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The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
W. C. Fields -
My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.
Christina Aguilera -
If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.
R. A. Torrey -
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg -
My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)
Rachel Grace Held -
In Hollywood I would have found the last teapot and it would be falling off the shelf in slow motion and I would have dove and caught it and we would have walked away in slow motion with you know, hands in the air, high fiving each other.
Benjamin Kowalewicz Billy Talent
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You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.
Jackie Collins -
For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
Kamala Markandaya -
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
William Shakespeare -
I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement