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
We draw the sword with a clean conscience and with clean hands.
Kaiser Wilhelm II— 1914 Address from the throne, Berlin, 4 Aug.
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)
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.
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."
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
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]
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).
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.
Thou comest to me with a sword, and with A spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. [...] And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with the sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
david— 1 Samuel 17:45-47 (KJV)
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).
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.
I have a dream: That one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream (1963)
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.
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Bible (Old Testament)— ORDDeuteronomy 24:19.
When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside, blindly I imagined I could keep you under glass, now I understand to hold you I must open my hands, and watch you rise.
mariah carey— Butterfly>, 1997. Written from the perspective of Carey’s ex-husband, Tommy Mottola.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
william hazlitt— "On Living to One's-Self"
In my opinion, negotiating with America is like shaking hands with Satan, and dancing with wolves, because the Americans are interested in negotiations for negotiations' sake. ...By negotiating with us, they are trying to intimidate the world of Islam and the Islamic movements, saying: "Even Islamic Iran, which you follow and which serves as your model, eventually had no choice but to get along with us."
hossein shariatmadari— Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan Iranian Daily: Negotiating with America is Like Shaking Hands with Satan and Dancing with Wolves (May 2007)
