Hands Quotes
12486 Hands quotes by 5912 unique authors
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god,…
— R C Sproul
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing…
— Thomas Brooks
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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of…
— George Wald
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during…
— Hippocrates
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity.…
— Muhammad Yunus
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The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
— Orson Scott Card
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of…
— Elias Canetti
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on…
— Victor Hugo
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There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon…
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while…
— John Stott
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I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty…
— Abraham Lincoln
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God is on your side. We already at the finish line. Anything you put your mind to, anything you want to accomplish ,you put your…
— Puff Daddy
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand…
— Frederick Douglass
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Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;…
— Sri Chinmoy
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True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind…
— Sri Chinmoy
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In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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