Hands Quotes

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally… — Neal Barnard
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! — James M. Barrie
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. — Bruce Barton
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand,… — Clara Barton
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to… — Jacques Barzun
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good… — Mario Batali
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch… — Charles Baudelaire
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are… — Scott Adams
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are… — Bob Beauprez
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story. — John Berger
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details. — Victoria Beckham
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures. — Joshua Bell
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. — Saul Bellow
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept… — Saul Bellow
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do… — Robert Benchley
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification… — Pope Benedict XVI
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other… — Pope Benedict XVI

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