Hands Quotes - Page 30

• We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Moving, Communication, Government

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• Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

  Bess Truman

  Marriage, Years, Matter

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• Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

  Sue Townsend

  Father, Hair, Looks

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Men, Reflection, Faithful

  George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.41, Gale Cengage Learning

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• when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Fire, Perfection

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her.

  Drake

  Proud, Way, Positive Marriage

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• [On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

  Annie Oakley

  Boys, Pockets, Sitting

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• The hand betrays the heart.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Heart, Betray

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Skeletons, Anecdotes

  Robert Aris Willmott (1858). “Summer Time in the Country”, p.44

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• Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Cheer, Dark, Feet

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.92

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• How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Running, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

  John Owen

  Kings, Communication, Eye

  John Owen (1679). “Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...”, p.197

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• When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

  Jon Foreman

  Surfing, Hurricanes, Lemonade

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Hurt, Giving Up

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• In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Artist, Suffering

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• Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

  James D. Watson

  Motivational, Tunnels, Light

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• Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

  Kevin Sabet

  Research, Scientist, Pot

  "U.S. Anti-Legalization Group Urges More Access To Marijuana Research", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2015.

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• It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

  Christina Stead

  Making Money, Easy, Walks

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

  Christina Stead

  Dog, Money, Names

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• Question your thoughts.
  Question your stories.
  Question your assumptions.
  Question your opinions.
  Question your conclusions.
  Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
  The keys to freedom are in your hands.
  Use them.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Keys, Joy

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• Where another person sees problems, a leader sees possibilities. ... Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe in the invisible, to work for something that's still only a possibility, while others often wring their hands in despair.

  Diane Dreher

  Believe, Leader, Vision

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• I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

  Zong Qinghou

  Believe, Wealth, Should

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• Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benedictions on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Religious, Father, Men

  Frederic Dan Huntington (1862). “Sermons for the People”, p.99

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• I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Stars, Sky, Rainbow

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• God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.

  J. G. Holland

  Character, Men, Individuality

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.22

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