Hands Quotes

12486 Hands quotes by 5912 unique authors

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. — Alec Guinness
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and… — Alison Krauss
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life,… — Anna Garlin Spencer
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future… — Frederick E. Crane
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we… — Okakura Kakuzo
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once… — Otto Hermann Kahn
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. — Salvador de Madariaga
Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands? — Therese of Lisieux
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you… — Judith Krantz
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work. — Frederick E. Crane
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. — Theodore J. Forstmann
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,… — David Boaz
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm
I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the… — Robert S. Mulliken
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach… — Nehemiah Grew
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;… — Marin Mersenne

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