Hands Quotes

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

I know I have a hit show on my hands.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

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.

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.