Hands Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.

  Andre Benjamin

  People, Chance, Kind

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• I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

  Kanye West

  Fighting, Care, Knows

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• I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.

  Neil Simon

  Needs, Use, Pages

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, People, Cards

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.

  Jillian Michaels

  Hate, Loss, Focus

  Source: www.laurenliveshealthy.com

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• Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• The boxing promotion part is really interesting, because I got the chance to do something with my sons. They carry their own weight, and I get a chance to listen to them and see what they have on their minds. I don't have to hand out things to do, and now they have things for me to do. It's an amazing privilege to get the opportunity to work with your children.

  George Foreman

  Children, Son, Opportunity

  Source: blacksportsonline.com

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• Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

  Edward Abbey

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

  Steve Earle

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Pain, Book

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.865, Ageless Reads

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• To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Vases, Language

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• I think Chris Paul is a great player. He is very unselfish and plays very hard, so he would be a guy if he plays. I think his hand is still questionable, though. I hear they are talking about resting him that weekend. I'm excited to play with all the guys. Marvin Williams is starting to play well, and Salim Stoudamire, I think he should be there.

  Andrew Bogut

  Sports, Player, Thinking

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

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• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

  Eric Dickerson

  Sports, Tired, Knees

  "Eric Dickerson, Class of 1999". Pro Football Hall of Fame biography, www.profootballhof.com. January 01, 2005.

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• We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: "If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician". In practice he is apt to say: "try this; if it works that will justify it".

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Running, Real, School

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• Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization. They hope for a future where the means of economic production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful. They feel that this minority control of production facilities is injurious to the large masses of people not only because of economic monopolies but because the political power inherent in this form of centralized economy does not augur for an ever expanding democratic way of life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Civilization, Names

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• I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

  Grover Cleveland

  Fall, Mean, Exercise

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