hands Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about hands.
“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
- Douglas Adams
“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
- William Hazlitt
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
- Einstein, Albert
“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.”
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.”
- Roux, John
“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
- William Hazlitt
“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”
- Quentin Crisp
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
- Michelangelo