Quotes and Sayings About Hands

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
-- Alexander Crum Brown

#Hands #Skills #Branches

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
-- Alexander Fleming

#Opportunity #Hands #Mind

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
-- Alexander Fleming

#Fate #Hands #Advice

Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Hands #Long #Waiting

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
-- Alexander H. Stephens

#Lying #Hands #Genius

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Power #Rights #Hands

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Real #Hands #Luxury

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Hands #Political #Riches

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Law #Government #Hands

I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.
-- Alexander Lukashenko

#Nice #Memorable #Hands

So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.
-- Alexander MacLaren

#Hands #Safety #Preparation

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Patriotic #Thinking #Hands

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Eye #Technology #Hands

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.
-- Alexander Ovechkin

#Crazy #Views #Hands

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
-- Alexander Pope

#Ocean #Ambition #Hands

All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
-- Alexander Pope

#Marriage #Hands #Wife

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
-- Alexander Pope

#Eye #Hands #Pleasure

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
-- Alexander Theroux

#Fire #Hands #Burning

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.
-- Alexander Whyte

#Prayer #Hands #Practice

No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Dark #Hands #Ugly

Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Eye #Pigs #Hands

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Hands #Knives #People

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Men #Hands #Class

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
-- Alfred Austin

#Heart #Garden #Hands

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!
-- Alfred Binet

#Reflection #Simple #Hands

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
-- Alfred Brendel

#Hands #Play #Three

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
-- Alfred de Musset

#Hands #Walks

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
-- Alfred de Vigny

#Hands #Two #Public Opinion

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.
-- Alfred Edersheim

#Hands #Trials #May

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Photography #Hands #Cameras