- 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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
- Cranking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.
- Collaboration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.
- Little Girls
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020