Hands Quotes - Page 31

• Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Art, Race, Feet

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• I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Long Ago, Tendencies, Dangerous

  "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" by Rodric Braithwaite, (p. 65), 2010.

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• People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. It was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.

  Donald Tsang

  Mean, Swings, People

  "HK's Tsang Apologises for Gaffe". news.bbc.co.uk. October 13, 2007.

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• Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Maids, Archaeology

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• Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wisdom, Writing, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Lays

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Poems and Ballads, [first Series].”, p.343

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• This is a marvel of the universe:
  To fling a thought across a stretch of sky--
  Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
  It matters not; the elements rehearse
  Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
  The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
  Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
  A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Men, Sky, Bird

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• There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
  His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
  Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
  And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  God, Humble, Sky

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• to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

  Riane Eisler

  Reality, Myth, Hand In Hand

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• Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

  Anil Sinha

  Mean, Dedication, Energy

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• Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.

  Peter Ralston

  Mastery, Ends, Staying

  Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.24, North Atlantic Books

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• Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Mirrors, Age, Surprise

  Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

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• pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

  Zelda Popkin

  Running, Pity, Hours

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• Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.

  Val McDermid

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

  Val McDermid (2009). “Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.

  Dacia Maraini

  Art, Memories, Men

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• And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Dark, Two, Bird

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books

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• Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.

  Eliza Leslie

  Book, Mean, Numbers

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.271

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• nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

  Lynda Obst

  Courage, Sound, Nerves

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• Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Marriage, Children, Romance

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• Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

  Joanne Greenberg

  Money, Real, Believe

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• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Miss Read

  Doors, Funny Things, People

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• Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Creativity, Going Away, Artistic Creation

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• After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!

  Caroline Anne Southey

  Lying, Flower, Book

  Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.267

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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