Hands famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.
-- Bill Buford -
Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.
-- Bill Cosby -
We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.
-- Bill Cosby -
Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.
-- Bill Cowher -
Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.
-- Bill de Blasio -
I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
-- Bill Dickey -
What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
-- Bill Drayton -
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
-- Bill Drayton -
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
-- Bill Gaede -
At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
-- Bill Goldberg -
If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.
-- Bill Haywood -
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
-- Bill Hybels -
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
-- Bill Hybels -
One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
-- Bill Hybels -
The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. ... And she must be spontaneous as well.
-- Bill Kaulitz -
That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
-- Bill Klem -
If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.
-- Bill Lipschutz -
People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.
-- Bill Maher -
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.
-- Bill McKibben -
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
-- Bill Mollison -
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-- Bill Moyers -
Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.
-- Bill Murray -
People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.
-- Bill Nye -
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.
-- Bill Parcells -
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.
-- Bill Parcells -
Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
-- Bill Russell -
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
-- Bill Toomey -
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
-- Bill Walton -
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
-- Billy Corgan -
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
-- Billy Crystal -
I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
-- Billy Crystal -
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.
-- Billy Graham -
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.
-- Billy Graham -
God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.
-- Billy Graham -
I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
-- Billy Graham -
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
-- Billy Graham -
What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.
-- Billy Graham -
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
-- Billy Graham -
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.
-- Billy Graham -
Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.
-- Billy Graham -
I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.
-- Billy Joel -
I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
-- Billy Preston -
Im a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.
-- Birdman -
We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.
-- Biz Markie -
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
-- Biz Stone -
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
-- Bjork -
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
-- Bjork -
Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
-- Black Francis -
Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
-- Blair Underwood -
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn't that I play favorites, it's just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it'll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn't even notice you were gone. Oh, were you out? they'll say, I didn't notice. Then they'll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.
-- Blaize Clement -
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.
-- Bo Lozoff -
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
-- Bob Balaban -
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
-- Bob Beauprez -
I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.
-- Bob Cousy -
The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.
-- Bob Coy -
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
-- Bob Dole -
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place
-- Bob Dole -
Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.
-- Bob Dylan -
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.
-- Bob Dylan -
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
-- Bob Dylan -
He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.
-- Bob Dylan -
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
-- Bob Dylan -
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
-- Bob Dylan -
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.
-- Bob Dylan -
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
-- Bob Feller -
The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.
-- Bob Fosse -
Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
-- Bob Goff -
Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever
-- Bob Hicok -
The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
-- Bob Marley -
I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.
-- Bob Odenkirk -
When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no longer dread it. Instead, I enjoy the game of finding the very best way to deal with it, and take great satisfaction in having a hand in resolving the issues that come my way.
-- Bob Parsons -
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
-- Bob Schaffer -
. . .by lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.
-- Bob Sorge -
I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.
-- Bob Woodward -
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
-- Bob Woodward -
The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true-although it sounds good!-but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.
-- Bobby Hull -
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
-- Bobby Jones -
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.
-- Bobby Jones -
Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
-- Bobby Knight -
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
-- Bobby Seale -
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
-- Bobby Seale -
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
-- Bobby Seale -
Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.
-- Bodo Balsys -
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
-- Boethius -
One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
-- Boman Irani -
Guys are OK... shake their hand... Women are special. You can hug 'em.
-- Bon Scott -
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
-- Bong Joon-ho -
Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.
-- Bonnie D. Parkin -
If we are in tune with the Spirit, if we are seeking the Lord and His guidance, if our direction is to return to our Father in Heaven, the sweet moments will come. And we will treasure them, for we have become instruments in the hands of God
-- Bonnie D. Parkin -
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
-- Bono