One Hand Quotes

449 One Hand quotes by 402 unique authors

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts? — Swami Vivekananda
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have… — Nancy Gibbs
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and… — Salvador de Madariaga
Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first — S.A. Bodeen
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose,… — Garth Ennis
We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other, — Henry Jenkins
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which… — Jean Paul
On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the destiny… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot… — King Hussein I
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep… — Bertrand Russell
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers… — Harry Golombek
The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other. — Julian Casablancas
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely… — Al Yankovic
We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists,… — Elif Safak
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks… — Unknown Author
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that… — Niall Williams
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the… — John Michael Greer
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in… — John Balguy
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder… — Jean Houston
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my… — Ari Shavit
You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost… — Dick Pound
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was… — Laurie Lee
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to… — Bo Lozoff

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402 authors contributed a total of 449 One Hand Quotes, led by these top contributors: