hands

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us.