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Hands Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
- I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and…
- The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of…
- To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
- I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last,…
- I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
- While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he…
- Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,…
- All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would…
- When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have…
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