Hands Quotes - Page 5

• All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Giving, Today

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Talking

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• You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put
  wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Wings, Feet

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• We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Nice, Sometimes

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• When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Blood, Liberty, Violence

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• Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

  Quinn Cummings

  Years, Odds, Awkward

  Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin

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• Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.

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• When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

  Michael Bridges

  Love, Life, Work

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• Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Beautiful, Daughter, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 05, 2016

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• Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

  George Herbert

  Gold, Lost

  George Herbert, John N. Wall (1981). “The Country Parson ; The Temple”, p.215, Paulist Press

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• It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Christmas, Letting Go, Brother

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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• The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Trying, Kind, Holding On

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If You Slept ...”

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• If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Pain, Dirty, Appreciate

  Robert Farrar Capon (1967). “The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books”, p.170, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Heart, Giving

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Sight

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• Nature never writes a blind hand.

  Thomas Starr King

  Writing, Blind, Physiognomy

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• Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Law, Justice

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

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• A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Laughing, Earth

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• Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Peace, Honesty, Powerful

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Religious, Prayer

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• Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

  Jean Anouilh

  Moving, Snakes, Long

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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