Hands Quotes - Page 354

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

We just finished shaking hands with all of the fans. I feel very good. They are cute.

I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.