Hand Quotes - page 5

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. (Carl Sandburg)
On the other hand, you have different fingers. View quote
Steven Wright
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. View quote
Steven Wright
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand. View quote
Orson Scott Card
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. View quote
Robert Browning
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. View quote
Amy Tan
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people! View quote
Frances Burney
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way. (Jesse Ventura)
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
As if the world and they were hand and glove. View quote
William Cowper
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. View quote
Neil Kinnock
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. View quote
Booker T. Washington
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life. View quote
Thomas Cole
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand. (William Congreve)
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. View quote
Francis Bacon
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Newspapers are the second hand of history. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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. View quote
Helen Keller