Hands Quotes - page 2

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. (Horatio Nelson)
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! View quote
William Hazlitt
The world is in your hands, now use it. View quote
Phil Collins
Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. View quote
Henry Taylor
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. View quote
Paulo Freire
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
John Ruskin
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. View quote
Norman Mailer
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law they die by the hands of other men. (George Bernard Shaw)
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. View quote
Benito Mussolini
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. View quote
Camille Paglia
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God. View quote
Roméo Dallaire
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones. (Publilius Syrus)
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Who are you to judge the life I live I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean. View quote
Bob Marley
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. View quote
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