- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
- Nov 07, 2020
Blogging requires consistency, and you need to have some time on your hands, which I don't really have.
- Cries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though many of them never dreamed of being policemen, a lack of opportunities led them to those positions.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I put my head in my hands after missing a chance, that annoys the coaches a little.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
- Grenade
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020