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Hands Quotes by H.G. Wells
- The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,…
- A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh,…
- Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as…
- Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that…
- Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
- Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
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