Hands Quotes - Page 39

• It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Past, Errors, Imagination

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• Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

  Andrew Michael Ramsay

  Time, Events, Hours

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• The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.

  Peter Bayne

  Stars, Volcanoes, Overcoming

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• Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

  Feet, Raspberries, Kitten

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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• Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive consciousness using our rational mind—any more than we can grasp our own hand or see our own eye.

  Tom Hoover

  Eye, Intuition, Mind

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• ... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

  Craig L. Rice

  Beautiful, Perfection, Tourists

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• Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Running, Risk, Suffering

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

  Charlotte Charke

  Power, Fool, Knaves

  Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

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• Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!

  Sophie von La Roche

  Friendly, Gestures, Raises

  Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.197, SUNY Press

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• The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.

  Humphry Davy

  Moving, Men, Firsts

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• Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

  Babs Deal

  Creativity, Creative, Littles

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• Two hands are better than four sometimes.

  Antonia White

  Two, Four, Cooperation

  Antonia White (1979). “The Lost Traveller”

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• Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Memories, Habit, Fingers

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• Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.

  Jean Hersey

  Flower, Garden, Voice

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.

  Ann Wroe

  Flower, Heart, Winter

  "Why the ‘My Job Is Harder’ Fight Isn’t a Battle You Want to Win" by Lisa Earle McLeod, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.

  Evadne Price

  War, Distance, Gun

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• Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

  Anne Morice

  Boredom, Curious, Chemical Reactions

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• Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

  Carol Bly

  Mother, Children, Dad

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• If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandma, Rocks, Doors

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.118, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

  Roxane Gay

  Reaching, Reach Out, Hoping Someone

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Teacher, Commitment, Creativity

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• The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

  Josephine Herbst

  Law, Class, Tools

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• The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.

  Josephine Herbst

  Movie, Men, Media

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• I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Believe, Smell, Wish

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

  Lois Greiman

  People, Too Much, Tact

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