Hands Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

  LaToya Jackson

  Numbers, Guy, Wish

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• I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

  Susan Griffin

  Mother, Dream, Bird

  Susan Griffin (2016). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.164, Counterpoint

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• I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.

  Joan of Arc

  Thinking, Years, Four

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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• In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep the extermination of the Jews in memory even at my happiest hour.

  Menachem Begin

  Memories, Thinking, Names

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• But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

  Nigel Dennis

  Money, Sex, Fundamentals

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• The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Countenance

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.29, e-artnow

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• [On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Brother, Kids, Feet

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• churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religion, Church, Institutions

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• in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Eye, Voice

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• in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

  Alison Lurie

  Art, Real, What Matters

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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