Hands Quotes

Power and speed be hands and feet.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.