Their Hands Quotes

344 Their Hands quotes by 301 unique authors

Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate… — George Polya
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master… — Laozi
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot. — Joe McNally
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands. — Benedict of Nursia
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before… — Henri Bergson
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we… — Plato
The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders. — Jim Otto
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in… — John Hodgman
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the… — Andre Norton
Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With… — Unknown Author
I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a gun… — Jack Handey
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime… — Elbert Hubbard
America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who-with their hands, their intelligence and… — Nicolas Sarkozy
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in… — Nigel Slater
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough… — Jonathan Coe
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch… — Warsan Shire
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these… — Aaron Huey
Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with… — Wilma Mankiller
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also… — Theodor Herzl
Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure… — Ludwig von Mises
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy. — Dan Gable
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts — A. E. Housman

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