Hands Quotes - page 13

Tuesday morning at the Bible study We lift our hands and pray over your body But nothing ever happens. (Sufjan Stevens)
Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. View quote
Ibrahim Babangida
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. View quote
George Orwell
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work. View quote
Eugène Delacroix
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
The death-knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! View quote
Rudyard Kipling
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition. (Nicola Cabibbo)
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. View quote
A. E. Housman
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. View quote
Alan Watts
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help --for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. View quote
Omar Khayyám
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. View quote
Huey P. Newton
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands. View quote
Claud Cockburn
What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. View quote
Andrew Marvell
We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China. View quote
David Lange
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. (Francis Bacon)
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. View quote
Van Jones
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts. View quote
John Calvin
What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face. View quote
Benny Hinn
Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down. View quote
Dave Matthews