Hands Quotes - page 5

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself. (Philip Larkin)
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. View quote
Irwin Shaw
An idler is a watch that wants both hands As useless if it goes as when it stands. View quote
William Cowper
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got. View quote
Henry Rollins
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned. View quote
Bob Dole
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. View quote
Leo Burnett
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands. View quote
James A. Garfield
You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved You ever noticed that Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. I believe God created me in one day Yeah, looks like He rushed it. View quote
Bill Hicks
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. (Jane Austen)
Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold. View quote
Charles Lamb
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. View quote
Pierre Curie
Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands. View quote
Pierre Curie
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.' View quote
Aeschylus
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. View quote
Carl Jung
The land belongs to those who work it with their hands. View quote
Emiliano Zapata
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one? (Kate DiCamillo)
... the hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. View quote
Isaac Watts
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? View quote
Milton Berle