Hand Quotes

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

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.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.