Hand Quotes - 5
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Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
james shirley— 1659 The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses, act1, sc.3.
You can never tell how someone is going to handle power — not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it. "I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family."
jim butcher— Character: Harry Dresden
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon— Vol. 1, Chap. 48. Compare: "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief", Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (on Hampden), History of the Rebellion, Vol. iii, Book vii, Section 84.
In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.
thomas malory— Book I, ch. 25
The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.
robert heilbroner— Chapter IV, Part 1, A Recapitulation, p. 177
Let most men have a finger, and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan chief have a finger, and he will have the entire arm.
robert jordan— Sorilea (Lord of Chaos (15 October 1994))
"I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as occurs when air is sucked in strongly with the back of the hand held in front of the mouth. It is therefore incorrect to say that I have copied the cyclones and typhoons of the tropics."
viktor schauberger— Implosion Magazine, No. 83, p.17. (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude towards other excellent things by a like readiness of quotation: that we cannot, for instance, quote a star that we have been watching; or a hue of sunset; or a friend's voice, and his shake of the hand (I had almost said heart); or a beautiful picture...
samuel laman blanchard— Samuel Laman Blanchard, Sketches from life (1846)
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act II, scene 1, line 33.
And she caught him by hisgarment, saying, Lie with me: and he left hisgarment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 39:12.
I fear thee ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1798 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', pt.4.
My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is onlya motor hand.
— 1970 A Pictorial Autobiography.
If mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.
william wordsworth— 1805 'Elegiac Stanzas: suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a storm', stanza 4 (published1807).
Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
william bradford— Of Plymouth Plantation, Chapter 21 (1620-1647)
If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
ralph waldo emerson— Beauty
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
john heywood— Part I, chapter 11.
Gad, sir, Churchill is right. The Govt. has evidently made an irrevocable decision to be guided by circumstances with a firm hand.
david low— Colonel Blimp, quoted in David G. Chandler & Ian Beckett (eds.) The Oxford History of the British Army (Oxford: OUP, 2003) p. 312.
Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee.
— Paul Elmer More says this is an Old Welsh door Verse.
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's goodbye to the Bill of Rights.
— H.L. Mencken, “A Time to be Wary” (1933), collected in A Carnival of Buncombe.
And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand Beyond the river I-forget. One crosses by a single stone So narrow one must pass alone, And all about its waters fret The laughing river I-forget.
— Herman Knickerbocker Vielé, Borderland.
Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
— James Russell Lowell, in "Stanzas on Freedom" (1843).
I am the way I am the light I am the dark inside the night I hear your hopes I feel your dreams And in the dark I hear your screams Don't turn away Just take my hand And when you make your final stand I'll be right there, I'll never leave And all I ask of you is... Believe
— Savatage, "Believe", Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)
Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
— Meditations. iv. 17.
[Guybrush: What happened!?] Went to get your hand... [coughs] [Guybrush: You didn't have to do that!] [coughs again] Had to pay you back for all the trouble... Found Jacques... He told me... [Guybrush: What?] He told me... [Guybrush: What? What did the monkey tell you?]
— Who: Morgan LeFlay
— Source: Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
— Notes: While on his way to enlarge La Esponja Grande, Guybrush finds the character mortally wounded by her own sword in her chest. She tells him that she tried to rescue his hand that had been infected by the Pox of LeChuck, when all of a sudden she found Jacques the Monkey warning her about something that is not revealed; when Guybrush asks her what Jacques was trying to say, she groans out something in his ear before she breathes her last, and after mourning her death, he mistakenly assumes that the Marquis De Singe killed her. It is later revealed in the final chapter, Rise of the Pirate God, that it was LeChuck, not De Singe, who committed the deed, and that the last words she was trying to whisper to Guybrush were: Don't trust LeChuck. He's hypnotized a bunch of monkeys, and ran me through with my own blade.
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
— Bottom, scene i
Thou! thou! the vital , universal , giant force resistless, sleepless, calm , Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy, How will to e'er forget thee!
— Walt Whitman, in Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet: Leaves of Grass by Indirection, p.126
