Hands Quotes

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Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a… — Saint John Chrysostom
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the… — Francis Quarles
No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. — Joan Rivers
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. — Robert Breault
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands.… — Toni Morrison
The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands. — Robert Kennedy
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in… — Thomas Merton
The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than… — George Washington
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. — George Eliot
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been… — James Madison
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would… — Alexander Hamilton
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to… — Alexander Hamilton
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that… — James Madison
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:… — George Washington
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… — Alexander Hamilton
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish… — Barry McCaffrey
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is… — Alexander Hamilton
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the… — Abraham Lincoln
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive… — James Madison
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through… — Thomas Jefferson
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our… — Thomas Jefferson
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a… — Alexander Hamilton

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