Hands Quotes
1634 Comus, A Mask, l.143-4.
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It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable & marginalised.
nelson mandela
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, Provided he loves peace, Is a greater lover of the arts Than any so-called art-lover Who loves the arts of war.
bertolt brecht— "Freedom for Whom", as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 18
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
thomas jefferson— Letter to George Washington (4 January 1786)
Guwahati is considered the site of Pragjyotishpura, a semi- mythical town founded by Asura King Naraka who was later killed by Lord Krishna for a pair of magical earrings . The city was a vibrant cultural centre well before the Ahoms arrived, and later the theatre of intense Ahom- Mughal fighting, changing hands eight times in the 50 years before 1681. Most of the old city was wiped out by a huge 1897 earthquake followed by a series of devastating floods .
— Lonely Planet, in Guwahati:History, Lonely Planet
Though the parting hurts...the rest is in your hands.
— Who: Grovyle
— Source: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness
— Notes: Last words before falling through a time portal with Dusknoir. Dusknoir, Grovyle and the player are from the future, and are trying to stop the planet's paralysis, and when this is stopped, Grovyle disappears from existence.
When I left, Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie-crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty until her mother came into the space with a broad homely smile on her face to watch me drive away. I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Raymond Chandler— The High Window, chapter 36 (1942)
It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.
kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon— Petrie v. Hannay (1789), 3 T. R. 422.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.— "Transformed nonconformist", a sermon (1954)
Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft, Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets, Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.
adam mickiewicz— "The Crossing" [2]
We draw the sword with a clean conscience and with clean hands.
Kaiser Wilhelm II— 1914 Address from the throne, Berlin, 4 Aug.
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.
james frazer— The Golden Bough, Chapter 4, "Magic and Religion" (1890).
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
william cowper— The Task (1785), Book II, line 372.
"I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy," he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those parts. "I've delivered your cat," he continued, "from the hands, or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper."
anne brontë— Ch. XII : The Shower
You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.
john chrysostom— Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 6
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American... [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
tench coxe— Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
— In a 1988 speech to the United States Congress, quoted by himself at
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy.
lafayette, gilbert du motier, marquis de— Though Lafayette, himself a Roman Catholic, might conceivably have said something translatable as this, the earliest source yet found for this is an anti-catholic pamphlet The Future Conflict : An Address, (1878), by Order of the American Union, p. 20, without any citation of original sources. It has also been quoted as: "If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.
robert heilbroner— Chapter IX, John Maynard Keynes, p. 240
The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 17:22–23 (KJV).
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
benito mussolini— Speech (1928), as quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes, p. 349
My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.
sergei rachmaninoff— Quoted in Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 381.Said on February 27, 1943, during his last illness, after having said that he would never be able to play again.
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book III.
Our lady of the twilight, She hath such gentle hands, So lovely are the gifts she brings From out the sunset-lands, So bountiful, so merciful, So sweet of soul is she. And over all the world she draws Her cloak of shanty.
— Alfred Noyed, Our Lady of the Twilight.
Come, see the Dolphin's anchor forged; 'tis at a white heat now: The billows ceased, the flames decreased; though on the forge's brow The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound; And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare; Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.
— Samuel Ferguson, The Forging of the Anchor, Stanza 1.
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
— Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice ~ quoted by Raymond Lonergan in, Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American (1941), p. 42.
It is exciting to have a real crisis onyour hands, when you have spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment.
— 1982 Of the Falklands conflict. Speech to the Scottish Conservative Party Conference,14 May.
I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands.
Buddy the Elf— Elf (2003), Will Ferrell
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto X, Stanza 79.
