Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Hands Quotes

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Hands Quotes

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Brother Quotes , Hands Quotes

I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Hands Quotes , Dollars Quotes

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Time Quotes , Hands Quotes

Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Richman Quotes , Hands Quotes , Dolls Quotes

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Osborne Quotes , Smart Quotes , Hands Quotes

Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Views Quotes , Hands Quotes

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Keys Quotes , Hands Quotes

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Hands Quotes

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Hands Quotes , World Quotes

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Hands Quotes , Water Quotes

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hands Quotes , Extravagance Quotes

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes , Hands Quotes , Law Quotes

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Hands Quotes , Rivers Quotes

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Hands Quotes

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Hands Quotes

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Hands Quotes

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Hands Quotes

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , War Quotes , Hands Quotes