The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
Doug Coupland

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

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

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
Kyle MacLachlan

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
Ray Walston

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.
Lynn Redgrave

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
Mahalia Jackson

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.
Marton Csokas

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Manuel Puig

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.
Richard Le Gallienne

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.
Julie Christie

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
Loretta Young

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Leon Kass

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
Willie Stargell

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
Barbara Boxer

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
David Korten