Hands Quotes
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Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.
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The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
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Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.
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The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
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A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.
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When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.
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I hope it doesn't happen again that it gets out of hand, but yes, it is something to think about. We have to come out and get it done.
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I stand before you and my heart is in your hands, And I don't know how, I'd survive without your kiss, 'cause you've given me a reason to exist.
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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
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Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.
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Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.
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Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
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In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.
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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
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History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
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As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.
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We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.
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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.
