4,258 Quotes About Hands

  • Author Amos Bronson Alcott
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    Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

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  • Author Andre Agassi
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    The thought of a Wimbledon trophy being in the hands of somebody with a lot of money is upsetting.

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  • Author Amy Adams
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    That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

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  • Author Andy Andrews
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    By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

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  • Author Ann Aguirre
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    ... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.

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  • Author Ann Aguirre
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    Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

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  • Author Aristotle
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    Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

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  • Author Aravind Adiga
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    I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

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