Hands Quotes - Page 40

• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  Dan Barker

  Real, Sunday, Singing

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• The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.

  H. A. Guerber

  Kings, Hero, Heart

  H. A. Guerber (1909). “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages”, p.285, Courier Corporation

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Meditation

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• Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  Quilts, Cutting, Past

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• I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Insult, Firm, Wells

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

  Vince Gill

  Mistake, Successful, Exercise

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• When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

  Jodhi May

  Jobs, Surrender

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• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  Sam Riley

  Wife, Germany, Safe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

  Sam Riley

  Girl, Missing, Pudding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

  Justin Kirk

  Responsibility, People, Together

  "Justin Kirk Talks NOBODY WALKS, WEEDS, ANIMAL PRACTICE, MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

  Willard Scott

  Microphones, Folks

  Willard Scott, Daniel Paisner (1988). “America Is My Neighborhood”, Fireside

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• We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

  Rani Mukerji

  Spiritual, Saint, Film

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Branches, Olives

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

  John Lennon

  Music, Different, May

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• We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Government

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• I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Interesting

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• Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not - to uphold the laws of the land.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Land

  www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2000.

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• The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Texas, Political

  "Overseas visits cancelled to save Bush's blushes" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2000.

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• The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

  Edward Gibbon

  Views, Years, Two

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.190, Wordsworth Editions

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• His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ignorance, History, Judging

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.333

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• But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Omnipotence, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.84

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• Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Philosophy, History, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.376

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• At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Blood, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.

  Edward Gibbon

  Cities, History, Community

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.113

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• The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

  Aristotle

  Education, Art, Views

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2964, Delphi Classics

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