Hands Quotes - Page 420

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.

Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride, In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide, If the truest love thy heart can know Meet the truest love that from mine can flow. Pray God, beloved, for thee and me, That our sourls may be wedded eternally.

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there."

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.