Hands Quotes - Page 15

• Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

  Annie Dillard

  Painting, Chapters, Painter

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

  Quintilian

  Trying, Easier, One Thing

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• God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Kindness, Mean

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

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• God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, His Love, Intellect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

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• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

  Plautus

  Simple, Unjust, Injustice

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• The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands.
  [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

  Plautus

  Success, Hopeful, Mind

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• Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ideas, Tasks

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Men, Weapons

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War”, p.451, Open Road Media

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• It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Reading, Mean

  Marianne Moore (1997). “The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Independence, Arms

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• Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love Is, Self, Doe

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• The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

  Ouida

  Fall, Heart, Destiny

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.548, Ouida

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• Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

  Ouida

  Sweet, Strong, Smell

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

  Coco Chanel

  Happiness, Wise, Secret

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• When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Confidence, Errors, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Tunes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.458

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• The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Body, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

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• Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Happiness, Flower, Feet

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1848). “Gems from Tupper: Consisting of Extracts from the Following Works: Proverbial Philosophy; Thousand Lines; Twins; Hactenus; An Authr's Mind; Geraldine, and Other Poems; Heart; Crock of Gold; and Probabilities, an Aid to Faith”, p.60

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• If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Lust

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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• Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.
  [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Sacred, Should

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• Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, White

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• TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

  Ann Landers

  Impact, Stronger, Television

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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