Hands Quotes

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

~ Brad D. Smith

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

~ Alan Watts

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

~ Michael Leunig

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

~ Barton Gellman

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

~ Buenaventura Durruti

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

~ John Wesley

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

~ Billy Wilder

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

~ Michael Bloomberg

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

~ Kevin Yoder

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

~ Joseph Stalin

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

~ Robert Charles Winthrop

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

~ Earl Campbell

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

~ Brian Celio

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

~ Harold Pinter

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

~ Jamie Oliver

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

~ River Phoenix

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us.

~ Theresa Breslin

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

~ Sophocles

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

~ Merle Shain

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

~ Clint Eastwood

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

~ Mark Sanford

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

~ Heidi Klum

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

~ Julia Cameron

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

~ Thomas Sowell

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

~ Mahavira

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

~ Conrad Black

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

~ Jim Rohn

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

~ Rita Levi-Montalcini

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

~ Thomas Dewey