Hand Quotes

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.