Hands Quotes

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.