Hands Quotes

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

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.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

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!