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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
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We focused on getting popchips into the hands of tastemakers and influencers wherever they were, from the fashionistas at Mercedes Benz fashion week to the passengers on Virgin Airlines.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the victim of a violent attack in March 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured leaving me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.
- Nov 07, 2020
Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
- Crushing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'Stuart Little' by EB White, 'A Cricket in Times Square,' all the Beverly Cleary books.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
- Class Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
- Nov 07, 2020