Hands Quotes

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

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

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Disaffection stalks around us.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

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

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

It takes two hands to clap.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.