Hand Quotes

8515 Hand quotes by 4509 unique authors

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. — Charles Dickens
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the… — Thomas Jefferson
If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a… — Lady Gaga
Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the… — David Miliband
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports… — Henry David Thoreau
Mediocrity is a hand-rail. — Baron de Montesquieu
Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand-some better, some worse than others-but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is… — Unknown Author
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. — Francis Picabia
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old… — Bob Dylan
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. — Kenneth Tynan
I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham… — Don Helms
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it. — Freya Stark
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! — Nanci Griffith
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He… — Lin Yutang
What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time… — Thom Yorke
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left. — Art Tatum
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth… — Hans Zimmer
There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a… — Steven M. Greer
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the… — D. H. Lawrence

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