Hands Quotes - page 4

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that! (Ken Hensley)
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. View quote
Carl Schurz
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. View quote
Judith Viorst
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. View quote
W.S. Merwin
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. View quote
James Thurber
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Tis God gives skill, But not without mens hands He could not make Antonio Stradivaris violins Without Antonio. View quote
George Eliot
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. View quote
George Carlin
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
All is in the hands of Man. Therefore you should wash them often. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
Edmund Burke
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Speak to Him thou for He hears, And spirit with spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, And nearer than hands and feet. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. View quote
Maya Angelou
Do not put such unlimited powers in the hands of the husband, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. (Abigail Adams)
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. View quote
Richard Bach
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. View quote
Henny Youngman
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