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I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.
Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.
It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
Life is full of all sorts of people. You just need to know which hands to shake, which hands to hold and which hands to let go.
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.
I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.
When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!
It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.
It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.
If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.
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.
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.