- Nov 07, 2020
Hands Quotes
On whose hands hold wealth, power, and craft.
Hands shows up here mostly as a metaphor for control - who holds wealth, who creates it, and who is trusted with responsibility - rather than anything literal. For a related theme of doing rather than holding, see Action.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to look after myself and have a long-lasting career if I can. I want it in my hands and choose when I want to stop playing. I also want to be around for my kids to watch them grow up.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
- Software
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
- Assuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year.
- Guns
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world in which the United States does less, whatever set of calculations, other countries will tend to calculate - to move in one of two ways. Either they will assuage or, to use a more loaded term, appease the strongest power in the neighborhood with all the consequences of that, or they will determine to take matters into their own hands.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
- Gun Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020