Hands Quotes - Page 21

• With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

  Berthold Auerbach

  World, Hats, Politeness

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• Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

  Clifford Stoll

  Skills, Creating, Everyday

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• The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Hair, Blonde

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sports, Art, Character

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• Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand
  Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away.
  Who shall resist the summons?

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Death, World, Cold

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Want, Way

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• When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

  Harvey Gantt

  Struggle, Care, Poverty

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• Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Thinking, United States

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, Coffee

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

  Rumi

  Wise, Gold, Earth

  Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.16, Wellfleet

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• We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

  Edmund Burke

  Bites, Ingratitude

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

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• Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

  Edmund Burke

  Skills, Understanding, Tasks

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

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• Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Guilty, Strict

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.46

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• The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Oppression, Gravity

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

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• It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?

  John Steinbeck

  Water, Black, Mind

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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• Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

  Aeschylus

  Eye, Home, Justice

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• There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Two, Evil

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.89

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• The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Men, Discovery

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• The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds
  Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart
  Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be.
  Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them,
  Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven.
  All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.

  Philip James Bailey

  Peace, Pain, Kindness

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• Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Differences, Issues

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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• Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, Voice, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Sweet, Wall, Ambition

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Desire, Needs

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sweet, Order, Needs

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

  Agnes Repplier

  Knowledge, Knowing, Information

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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