Hands Quotes

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

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

I know I have a hit show on my hands.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.