Hands Quotes

12486 Hands quotes by 5912 unique authors

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,… — Edward Abbey
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other. — Edward Abbey
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such… — Edward Abbey
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow. — Edward Abbey
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there… — Martin Amis
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can… — Jane Austen
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on… — Hanif Kureishi
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good… — Douglas Adams
One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I… — Loretta Lynn
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will… — Mercy Otis Warren
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to… — Mercy Otis Warren
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! — Samuel Adams
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both… — Samuel Adams
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can… — Thomas Jefferson
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old. — Thomas Jefferson
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any… — George Washington
I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence. — George Washington
Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be… — George Washington
I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the… — Ray Bradbury
Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window… — Dorothy Parker
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by… — Bobby Sands

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