Hands Quotes - Page 32

• If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessed, Fall, Unions

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• [Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

  Madame de Stael

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

  Thomas Merton

  Night, Action, Mystery

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Views, Noble

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• Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Power, Reality, Class

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• The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Rocks, Boat, Cradle

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• It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Simplicity, Doe

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• Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Hate, May, Action

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• Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

  Fanny Fern

  Husband, Law, Use

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Fresh Leaves”, p.257, Litres

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• Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

  Fannie Hurst

  Icicles, Nervous, Dripping

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• not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Artist, Mind

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.

  Tom Petty

  Tired, Careers, Worry

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". The Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

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