Hands Quotes

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

~ Sarah Silverman

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

~ Sam Riley

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

~ T. E. Lawrence

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

~ William Petty

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

~ Peter Jackson

It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.

~ Mike Pompeo

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

~ Charles C. Mann

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~ Anne Frank

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

~ Albert Pike

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

~ James Madison

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

~ David Carradine

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

~ Julian Baggini

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

~ Huston Smith

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

~ Sugar Ray Leonard

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

~ Joy Harjo

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

~ Brigitte Bardot

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

~ Judith Viorst

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

~ Aldous Huxley

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

~ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later.

~ Prince Fielder

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

~ Maxim Gorky

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

~ Taraji P. Henson

I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.

~ Joan Collins

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

~ Douglas Adams

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

~ Maya Angelou

In the hands of food manufacturers, cheese has become an 'ingredient.'

~ Michael Moss

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

~ Carol P. Christ

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

~ Jonathan Carroll

Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn't make sense not to use both.

~ Jeannette Rankin

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

~ Evel Knievel

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

~ Thurgood Marshall

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

~ Shinzo Abe

Windows 95 had its 20th anniversary last year, so we got our hands on an old system and showed it to teenagers who were not even alive in 1995. The results were pretty great and also makes you feel quite old.

~ Benny Fine

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

~ Jeff Kinney

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

~ Abigail Adams

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

~ Joseph Pulitzer