Top 1200 Empty Hands Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The future of my government is not in the hands of the opposition. The steering wheel is in my hands.

Honestly, I'd rather hug than shake hands. I don't know where those hands have been!

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

If I die tomorrow the world is in great hands. In a much better hands than mine.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

I wish I would have started MMA earlier, but it was out of my hands. It was in God's hands.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

My future doesn't lie in the hands of Neil Warnock, it's in the hands of Robert Snodgrass.

Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

The best advice when playing from the small blind is to mix up your play. The general rules are to fold garbage hands, limp with marginal hands, and raise with hands that are strong enough to play big pots with. Don't allow your opponents, however, to pick up patterns in your play.

Hands have a major presence in flamenco, and when your hands are decorated, it adds power.

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

The Emmys are in good hands with Andy Samberg. Disgusting, dirty hands.

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

I think the thing with fame is that everybody claims they all want your best. They all know what's good for you and you end up ragged, empty and tired. I did. I felt so empty. Everybody tried to grab a piece of me and everybody tried to push me into a corner.

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the edges of everything in the room, blurring the flocked wallpaper into a single mass of dark color. “No. Not your hands. You need your hands for the violin. What do I need mine for?

Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don't enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there's no connection to the characters.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.