Hands Quotes - Page 41

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.

The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.