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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.
People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.
Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.
Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military
Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.
Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
He didn’t even know what it was, Vishous.” “The tux?” V lit a hand-rolled. “Of course he didn’t. He’s a real male.
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
It's all kind of just all of us coming together and all lending a hand on what we think will make it a good movie.
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.
Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!