Hand Quotes

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.