Hand Quotes

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.