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Hands Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at…
- Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
- I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding…
- The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
- The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
- I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able…
- The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is…
- Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
- I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they…
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