Hands Quotes - Page 72

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

I wish I had more hands, so I could give those titties four thumbs down!

I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people.

It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.