Best might & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.”

Way Feels Years Real Hands Might Felt Independent Festivals Sundance

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

Men Way May Different Character Hands Might Spirit Turns Source Built Agony Fabric Humiliation Straws

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.”

Giving Hands Might Humanity Church Justice Poor Christianity Rich Balance Dignity Ultimate Weight Institutions Neighbor Exploits Loving God Cooperatives Balance Of Power

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip.”

Hands Might Fighting Bits Hurt Fists Golfers

Author:Dan Jenkins

“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

“Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.”

Wells Hands Might Found Impossible Paradox Void Extensions Finite

Book:Two new sciences, including centers of gravity & force of percussion

Source: Two new sciences, including centers of gravity & force of percussion

“I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.”

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”

Needs War Real Hands Might Opportunity Party Ideals Hunger Desperate Sickness Conception Dread Enslavement

Author:C. S. Lewis

“We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.”

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.”

Knows Wells Kind Ideas Country Hands Might Happens Life Is Evil Worst Fronts Hearing Realization No Idea Demon Chairs Free Country Worst Fear

Author:Diet Eman

“Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.”

Should Doe Hands Might Desire Song Fall Strong Sky Bears Ears Ancient Tall Spheres Bores Packs Atlas

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.”

Firsts Hands Might Lord Honesty Fool Safe Coward Cheat Deserving Rogues

Author:Thomas Otway

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.”

Hands Might Issues

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.”

“But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.”

Ifs Use Hands Might America Greater Honest Fool Thirds Calamity Breach English History

Author:James G. Frazer

“If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.”

Ifs Reason Shows Hands Might Certain Church Magic Proud Tests Catholic Lays Appeals Motto Counting Catholic Church Infallibility

Author:James G. Frazer

“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”

Ifs Way Needs Hands Might Past Grief Accepting Impossible Stage Embrace Acceptable Way To Live Clinging Finality Embrace Life Stages Of Grief

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.”

Men Wells Book Hands Might Beautiful Young Literature Pure Fingers Young Man Passages Spoil Jewelry Assassins Sparkle Caress

Author:Joseph Parker

“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.”

“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.”

People Ifs Knows Men Years Matter Done Use Hands Might Three Force My Own Walks Forget Millions Position Revolution Keys Years Ago Prepared Sake Settling Reasonable Be Prepared

Author:Ernst Rohm

“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.”

Ifs Looks Stories Hands Might Eye Guy Turns Left Steps Feet Messages Crosses Balls Sorry Coffee Controlled Chests Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Thierry Henry

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.”

People Thinking Should Looks Hands Might Women Views Like You Type Shapes Should Have Agree Point Of View Feminine Skinny

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.”

Knows Wells Heart Moments Hands Might Party Materials Creating Spurs Creating Something Spur Of The Moment

Book:An Improvised Life: A Memoir

Source: An Improvised Life: A Memoir

“There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male groups did a bit less well, and that mixed groups did most poorly of all, by a substantial margin. It appeared that, when women were present, testosterone got the upper hand and men took greater risks than they might otherwise. Correspondingly, women in the mixed group tended to revert to roles, becoming more passive, and going along with whatever misjudgment the males might perpetrate.”

Men Years Wells Made Hands Might Bits Decision Roles Study Greater Risk Groups Becoming Intelligent Males Passive Propositions Margins Becoming More Testosterone Upper Hand

Book:Chindi

Source: Chindi

“Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.”

Men Giving Made Book Hands Might Clear Too Much Prove Weakness Fairs Faults Dear Boast Much Love Sharp Words

Author:Emilia Lanier

“The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.”

People Ifs Hands Might Together Past Used Ability Weapons Conquer Divides Slap Dividing Divide And Conquer Take My Hand

Author:Malcolm X

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.”

Wells Hands Might Pain Sound Pleasure Results Responsibility Communication Scientist Chiefs Therapy Injury Clapping

Book:The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

Source: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

“I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand.”

Thinking Hands Might Stuff Mom Tasks Bigger My Mom Sweat Our Relationship Day To Day One You Love Irritation Small Stuff Task At Hand Sweat The Small Stuff

Author:Michelle Obama

“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.”

Way Two Home Hands Might Stars White Animal Sea Feet Thousand Ocean Hundred Blue Pounds Paradox Killers Living Things Sharks Whales Milky Way Two Hands

Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.”

Matter Philosophy Hands Might Belief Impossible Cry Stones Philosopher Cups Abstract Candle Concrete Statues Exotic Actuality Martyred

Author:Shirley Jackson

“This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.”

People Men World Writing Has Beens Done Hands Might Romance Pleasure Gone Crazy Men And Women Mad Thrill Old World Faithless

Book:The Faith That Moves Mountains

Source: The Faith That Moves Mountains

“Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.”

Knows World Persons Hands Might Lasts Life Is Suffering Causes Pleasure Known Cases Forever Endure Life And Death Our World Departure Passed Away

Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.”

Ifs Matter Hands Might Fall Powerful

Author:Mary Landrieu

“One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.”

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!”

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