Hands Quotes - Page 24

• O sleep! O sleep!
  Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep,
  Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand
  Over the lids that crave thy visits bland,
  Thou kind, thou comforting one.
  For I have seen his face, as I desired,
  And all my story is done.
  O, I am tired.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sleep, Healing, Tired

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.133

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• In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
  A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
  Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
  For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore:
  The other held a globe, which to his will
  Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill:
  Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
  And look'd through nature at a single view:
  A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
  And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
  Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
  And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

  Charles Churchill

  Eye, Views, Sea

  Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Rose, Velvet

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

  Denis Diderot

  Race, Soul, Darkness

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• We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Believe, Knowledge, Reality

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Mind, Sun

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.157, Open Road Media

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• children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Children, Trouble, Difficulty

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• An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

  Mary Renault

  Silence, Twenties, Sitting

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Laborers, Hard, Conscience

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• A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

  Edna Ferber

  Bullying, Bully, Feds

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• Before
  We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
  Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
  But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
  Enter their profane temples; and for me
  To hope my passage to eternity
  Can be made easy, till I have shook off
  The burthen of my sins in free confession,
  Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
  Is against reason.

  Philip Massinger

  Feet, Sorrow, Temples

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.262

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• My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

  Adrian Peterson

  Football, Dad, Mean

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• He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

  Mike Ditka

  Jealous, Winning, Eagles

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• The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Men, Names

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

  Richard Avedon

  Taken, Order, Trying

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• Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Perception, Photographer

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• Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

  Weegee

  Nice, Average, Cameras

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• When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Three, Lied

  "NSA spies on more US citizens than Russians – Snowden". www.rt.com. May 1, 2014.

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• If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Nsa, People

  "President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance reforms - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2014.

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• A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

  Robert Crawford

  Food, Cooking, Soup

  John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie (1996). “John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie”

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• Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dirty, Food, Order

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Glasses, Long

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• Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

  John Keats

  Food, Writing, Talking

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.96

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