Hands Quotes

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. (Sophocles)
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. View quote
Albert Einstein
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. View quote
Indira Gandhi
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. View quote
Erica Jong
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. View quote
William Blake
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. View quote
Billy Wilder
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. (Honoré de Balzac)
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. View quote
James Madison
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. View quote
Maxim Gorky
No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them. View quote
Paulo Coelho
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. View quote
Robert Benchley
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. View quote
Norman Mailer
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. View quote
Steve Biko
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. (Woodrow Wilson)
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. View quote
John Wayne
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.