Hand Quotes - page 7

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. (Sophocles)
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it. View quote
Mark Twain
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Steady of heart and stout of hand. View quote
Walter Scott
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. View quote
Walter Scott
On his childhood One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard. View quote
Mike Tyson
On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. View quote
Joseph Conrad
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. View quote
Saul Bellow
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. (Aristotle)
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. View quote
Voltaire
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. View quote
Manuel Puig
If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. View quote
M. Scott Peck
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. (Samuel R. Delany)
Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket-not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. View quote
Howard Pyle
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. View quote
Charles Cooley
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. View quote
Sean O`Casey