Hands Quotes
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A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
Gaston Leroux -
It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.
Curtis Strange
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
George Bernard Shaw -
You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
Dolly Parton -
The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
William Gurnall -
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Joanne Rowling -
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Lois McMaster -
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.
Tituss Burgess -
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.
William Shakespeare -
With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or reducing them to some prior level would be akin to 'biting the hand that feeds us.
Keith E. Idso -
When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.
Behdad Sami -
I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.
Scoot McNairy
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I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
Emily Dickinson -
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac -
I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
Jose Rizal -
I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.
Jill Soloway
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I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people.
Daniel Negreanu -
All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.
George Washington -
When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
Arthur Mattuck