Hands Quotes - Page 28

• This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Heart, Invisible Hand

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Teaching, Learning, Eye

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• This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.

  Lee Roberson

  Crazy, Writing, Men

  Lee Roberson (2000). “The Faith That Moves Mountains”, p.470, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Long, Grace, Looks

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Voice, Different

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.114

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• Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

  Francis Quarles

  Mouths

  Francis Quarles (1822). “Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions”, p.228

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• To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

  Helen McCloy

  Latin, Moving, Careers

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• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Distance, Men, Long

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• the brain works better if the hand works too.

  Olive Schreiner

  Thinking, Brain, Ifs

  Olive Schreiner, Havelock Ellis (1992). “"My Other Self": The Letters of Olive Schreiner and Havelock Ellis, 1884-1920”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

  Olive Schreiner

  Strong, Men, Doors

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Errors, Trying

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Play

  Mary Parker Follett (1977). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”, Buccaneer Books

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• In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Cat, Next Day, Yellow

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.44, University of Toronto Press

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• Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Our World, Life And Death, Forever

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Giving, Disease, Hats

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

  Margaret Halsey

  Vanity, Race, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

  Anita Roddick

  Practice, Design, Definitions

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

  Audre Lorde

  Silence, Invisibility, Hand In Hand

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Suffering, Events

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.171, Crossing Press

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• The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along
  Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong.
  The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day
  Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray.
  So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream
  You've an army at hand; your command is supreme;
  And question yourself, as it goes on review--
  Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

  Anna Magnani

  Moon, Jewels, Feelings

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Makeup, Matter, Stills

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