Hands Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Feet, Shoes

  John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.25

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• Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

  Rebecca West

  Civilization, Hatred, Doe

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Believe, Army

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• I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

  Rachel Carson

  Stars, Ocean, Home

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.

  Fanny Brice

  Jobs, Husband, Home

  "The Fabulous Fanny : The Story of Fanny Brice". Book by Norman Katkov (p. 71), 1953.

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• It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hero, Use, Reason

  Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”

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• Hands have not tears to flow.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tears, Flow

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• Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Strong, Strong Hands, Greater

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1926). “The Bent Twig”

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• That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

  Tillie Olsen

  Peace, Growing Up, Wrecks

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

  Etty Hillesum

  Determination, Home, Night

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.317, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, America, Leader

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 99, 1982.

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• advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Future, Years, Mouths

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.370, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

  Molly Ivins

  Perseverance, Honesty, Nice

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• There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

  John Milton

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.

  Andrew Jackson

  Cutting, Gold, Restoration

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• [Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

  Madame de Stael

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Awkward

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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• It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.

  Shirley Jackson

  Philosophy, Exotic, Stones

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• Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Regret, Home, House

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press

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