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
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]
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.
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.
We draw the sword with a clean conscience and with clean hands.
Kaiser Wilhelm II— 1914 Address from the throne, Berlin, 4 Aug.
"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
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
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.
O thou, the friend of man assigned, With balmy hands his wounds to bind, And charm his frantic woe: When first Distress with dagger keen Broke forth to waste his destined scene, His wild unsated foe!
william collins— 1747 Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects,'Ode to Pity', no.1.
Elizabeth Hand is one of American literature's finest prose poets of the fantastic. Her novels are powerfully lyrical, suffused with visionary agony and dreamlike eroticism; in her hands, myth reattains the nightmare energy of its origins, staining the present and the future with atavistic hues of blood.
elizabeth hand— Nick Gevers in "Apocalypse Descending" (2002)
I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.
nelson mandela— Speech on the day of his release, Cape Town (11 February 1990)
There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 34 (Phineas Redux (1874))
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)
Serene I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
— John Burroughs, Waiting.
Cut off the hands of thieves. It is an exemplary punishment from God.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 5:38
