Saint Augustine Quotes, Moving Quotes, Hands Quotes

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Moving Quotes , Hands Quotes

Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Animal Quotes , Hands Quotes

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Hands Quotes , Shows Quotes

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Children Quotes , Hands Quotes

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Hands Quotes , Giving Quotes

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Hands Quotes , Silent Quotes

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Hands Quotes , Effort Quotes

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Hands Quotes

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Light Quotes , Hands Quotes

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aaron Lewis Quotes , Government Quotes , Hands Quotes

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hands Quotes , Comforting Quotes

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Love Quotes , Hands Quotes

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Writing Quotes , Hands Quotes

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Hands Quotes , Assuming Quotes

It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Pasdar Quotes , Hands Quotes , Voice Quotes

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Hands Quotes , Eden Quotes