Hands Quotes
12486 Hands quotes by 5912 unique authors
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now…
— J. William Fulbright
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its…
— Wyndham Lewis
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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How…
— Erica Jong
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Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and…
— Sylvia Browne
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Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King…
— Don King
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can…
— Helen Keller
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
— Oscar Wilde
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For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in…
— Hal Borland
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That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With…
— Peter Gabriel
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation…
— Unknown Author
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At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good…
— Orson Scott Card
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the…
— Thomas Boswell
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Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
— Will Self
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf…
— Vince Gill
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My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at…
— Ian Fleming
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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
— Homer
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
— Lloyd Alexander
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't…
— Walker Evans
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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he…
— Roger Bacon
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The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to…
— Joseph McCarthy
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