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The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.
I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.
Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.
No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.
I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.
Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
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.
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.
If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.
On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.
Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.
I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.
With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.
Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.