Hand Quotes - page 3

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. (Anne Brontë)
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. View quote
Jack London
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. View quote
Edward Young
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. View quote
Spike Milligan
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. View quote
Anton Chekhov
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children. View quote
Antonio Porchia
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Eckhart)
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. View quote
Edward Everett Hale
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. View quote
Walter Scott
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. View quote
Jean Cocteau
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. View quote
Tadao Ando
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. View quote
David McCallum
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. View quote
Ingeborg Bachmann
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. View quote
Rollo May
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. View quote
Ken Thompson
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. View quote
Lester B. Pearson