Hands Quotes

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

Government, Democracy, Special

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

Him, Among, Stone

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
George Carlin

Life, Step, Foot

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

Change, Sometimes

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Time, Patience

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

Family, Small, Bird

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

Head, Paid, Using

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

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

Death, Knowledge, Human

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
Steve Jobs

Life, Experience, End

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
Jerry Lewis

Woman, Dream, Able

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
Mitch Hedberg

Someone, Saying, Away

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

Fate, Lemonade, Lemon

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.
Bill Cosby

Gun, Watch, Supposed

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
Mitt Romney

Life, Work, Money

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.
Mitch Hedberg

Dangerous, Cocky, Wave

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

Best, Victory, Another

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis

Great, Democracy, Country

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein

Writing, Private, Ashamed

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

Education, Whose, Depend

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

Men, Freedom, Law

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
Ken Hensley

God, Future, Happy

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
Mitt Romney

Life, Religion, Freedom

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

Character, Person, Lies

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken

Women, Kiss, Fighters

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary Clinton

Education, Great, Freedom

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Children, Heaven, Hold

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good, Evil, Words

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