Quotes with left-hand

Quotes 61 till 80 of 717.

  • Henry Ward Beecher A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Carrie Fisher Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Scott Glenn Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
    Scott Glenn
    American actor (1941 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • John Huston After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
    John Huston
     
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  • Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Douglas Adams After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Boyle Roche All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sir Walter Scott All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Black Kettle All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • August Wilson All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • A. W. Tozer An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Carl Karcher And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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