Hands Quotes - Page 218

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an element of discipline involved; that however perfect the honeymoon, the time will come, however brief it is, when you wish she would fall downstairs and break a leg. This goes for her too. But the mood will pass, if you give it time.

When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

The hand in the eye is the ultimate tool.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

Be a giver. Share whatsoever you can. And remember, I am not making any distinction between. small things and great things. If you can smile whole-heartedly, hold somebody's hand and smile, then it is a creative act, a great creative act. Just embrace somebody to your heart and you are creative. Just look with loving eyes at somebody; just a loving look can change the whole world of a person.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.