Hand Quotes

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If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

..but it was like trying to keep water in his cupped hands; the details were now trickling away as fast as he tried to hold on to them.

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hereupon he stopped and snatched up in his hand a bow and swift arrows, the weapons that trusty Achates carried.

Man warring on himself an old tale is;
But Man discovering the source of all his sorrow in himself,
Finding his left hand and his right
Are similar sons, are children fighting
In the porchyards of the void?!

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasure and moneys in a state be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve. And money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.

Bertrand Russell

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

George Washington

From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year....though very young, was large for his age, and had an ax put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument—less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons.

Abraham Lincoln

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

Rabindranath Tagore

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

It is exciting to have a real crisis on your hands, when you have spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment.

On the Falklands campaign, 1982

Margaret Thatcher

Emails in general are terrible. There's no security. It happens so often. I'm old-fashioned. I put a letter in an envelope and have it hand delivered. My son is 10 years old, and he has grown up computer literate. They start using computers before they can walk. His computer was locked and he unlocked it. And I said, 'Barron, how did you do that?' And he said, 'I won't tell you, Dad.

No man can have sex with anyone but me and since I don't have that kind of time on my hands, you might as well all be gay!

Princes ought to leave affairs of reproach to the management of others, and keep those of grace in their own hands.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons and other men be ready to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine-guns and new battle cries of war and victory.

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

William Shakespeare

Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!

William Shakespeare

Why doesn't somebody write a tract on "How to Be a Christian and yet keep your Hands off of Other People's Things."

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

George Washington