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Hands Quotes by Alan Watts
- You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry…
- The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to…
- Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
- Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
- Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"…
- The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being…
- The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness…
- The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf