Hands Quotes
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The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.
Evo Morales
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee
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It was Christmas Eve. Big snowflakes fluttered slowly through the air like white feathers and made all of the Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful. Tall fir trees stood up to their knees in snow and their outstretched hands were heaped with it. Those that were bare of leaves wore soft white fur on their scrawny, reaching arms and all the stumps and low bushes had been turned into fat white cupcakes.
Betty MacDonald
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
William James
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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.
Eliza Leslie
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller
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God's got his hands in a lot of human pies.
Wyatt Cenac
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
Wole Soyinka
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The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
L. M. Boyd
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...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.
Laini Taylor
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They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.
Haruki Murakami
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As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.
Neil L. Andersen
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
Evita Peron
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To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.
Natalie
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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.
Will Yun Lee
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.
Saint Augustine
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.
Geert Wilders
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Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.
Hart Crane
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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.
William Shakespeare
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Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
Joanne Rowling
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We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.
Thomas Mitchell Morris