Quotes with hands

Quotes 161 till 180 of 238.

  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Abdallah II The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Dickinson The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Jay Leno The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
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  • John Maynard Keynes The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Betty Smith The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
    Betty Smith
    American writer (1896 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anne Frank The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bayard Taylor The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Colin Wilson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Steven Biko The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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  • Francis Bacon The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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