Hands Quotes - Page 28

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.

Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

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.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.