Hand Quotes

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

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.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.