Hands Quotes - Page 253

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation.... On the other hand ... by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient.

If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.