Best hands & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.”

Hands Faces Stones Pops Avant Garde Schizophrenic Kink

Author:Andy Partridge

“Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.”

Hands Faces Sports Excellence Obstacles Planning Silver Motivational Sports Preparing Silver Platter

Author:Terry Orlick

“All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.”

Men Hands Faces

Book:Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.”

Real Moments Hands Faces Form Passion Grows Change Perfect Sea Intellectual Insight Mood Hills Attractive Excitement Tone That Moment

Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Sometimes Moments Body Hands Faces Desire Gratitude Urges Overwhelming Pulse Kneeling Deep Gratitude Overwhelming Urge

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.”

Ifs Knows Ends Hands Faces Poverty Know How Needed Projects Towns Unions Workers Killing France Spite Face To Face Workshops Degrading Taverns

Author:Flora Tristan

“Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.”

I Can Moments Hands Eye Pain Faces Next Hours Challenges Break Too Much Pieces Sadness Loneliness Tasks Horse Size Illness Handle Bites Hands Up Small Pieces Blinders

Author:Regina Brett

“I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.”

Trying Hands Faces Fun Party Drink My Friends Smile Warm Dinner Backgrounds Great Music Dinner Party Smile On My Face Dinner Guests

Author:Ina Garten

“A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.”

Hands Faces Miracle Your Face

Book:All the Truth That's In Me

Source: All the Truth That's In Me

“The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.”

Knows Should Littles Doe Has Beens Made Book Real Self Reason Character Stories Hands Might Faces Fun Reader Picks Familiar Factors Spots Titles Referencing Familiar Faces Book Titles

Author:Charles de Lint

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

World Two Sometimes Hands Faces Walks Flower Shadow Tricks Sickness Weed Ugliness Hand In Hand Tiptoes Shadow Of Death Health And Life

Author:Tiffany Baker

“Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.”

Men Stills Character Hands Christian Faces Church Grace Plans Honest Brave Cheerful Cant Trumpets Honest Man Loathing Pretence Grace Christian

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.”

Giving Home Hands Today Faces Turns Tomorrow Future Invites Only Love

Author:Phil Jackson

“There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.”

Ideas Hands Faces Purpose Chance Enemy Combat Chances Are Knocking

Author:William Powell

“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”

Giving Art Hands Faces Tree Movement Color Painting Fine Shadow Paint Lovely Painter Texture Fine Arts Fixing Reacting Unnoticed Lovely Things Antenna

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory: this is for you, you, you. These are for you-gifts-these are for you-grace-these are for you-God, so count the ways He loves, a thousand, more, never stop, that when you wake in the morning you can't help turn humbly to the east, unfold your hand to the heavens, and though you tremble and though you wonder, though the world is ugly, it is beautiful, and you can slow and you can trust and you can receive each moment as grace.”

World Way Moments Helping Hands Earth Beautiful Faces Turns Heaven Stars Wonder Morning Grace Feet Thousand Glory Rain Ugly East Over You Your Face Spinning Brazen

Author:Ann Voskamp

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.”

Men Humans Hands Faces Hours Animal He Man Clothes Areas Human Animal

Book:Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.”

Knows Men Way Heart Long Said Hands Eye Faces Forget Forever Path Regret Mets Creatures Wander Wet Long Ago Wiser Woe Haunting Phantoms

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.”

People Way Humans Hands Faces Law Force Felt Interest Sin Judging Broken Needed Protect Projects Creating Committed Harm Overwhelming Wrongdoing Overwhelming Force

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Use Hands Care Faces Space Drink Dresses I Care Wipe Because I Can

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.”

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.”

Hands Faces Feet Absence Shoulders Tone Tunes Gaps Grammar Posture Nuance Quaint

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.”

Sometimes Feelings Hands Faces Courses Hurt Heard Minutes Over It Seconds Get Over Hurt Feelings Saudis Arabian

Author:Pat Condell

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations

“This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.”

Men Firsts Humans Sometimes Hands Eye Faces Suffering Born Atheism Tears His Eyes Slips Cheeks Glances Futility Weariness Pathos Human Suffering Unconcerned Being Old Futility Of Life

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“There's a principle here and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.”

Want Heart Hands Faces Nations Justice Liberty Principles Atheism Court Positive Atheism Divided Flags Pledge Indivisible Liberty And Justice Justice For All Liberty And Justice For All

Author:Michael Newdow

“One hand washes the other...both hands wash the face.”

Hands Faces

Author:Sam Giancana

“Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.”

Long Hands Beautiful Faces Graves Long Ago Beautiful Face

Book:Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.”

Knows Looks Book Hands Faces Reading Hours Notes Satisfaction Compare Shakes Valued Friends

Author:William Hazlitt

“How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!”

Years Doe Hands Faces Beauty Minutes Fine Office Accomplish Wit Lovely Indulgence Civility Good Nature Good Office Lovely Face

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.”

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.”

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.”

Needs Looks Use Hands Eye Faces Sides Secret Behinds Vision Fronts Sight Mirrors Track Prey Pins Predator Peripheral Vision Sneaking Up

Author:Diane Ackerman

“O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.”

Kind Sometimes Done Stories Hands Faces Left Sleep Forget Healing Tired Comforting Crave Bland Forget Me

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]”

Hands Faces Lava

Author:John Florio

“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.”

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

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