Top 1200 Upper Hand Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Comedy and art go hand in hand, even if it's not laugh-out-loud.

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.

I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I could reach and pull myself across. I roll off, and would have fallen face-first onto a wood floor if he had not caught me. "He" is the young man attached to the hand I grabbed. He has a spare upper lip and a full lower lip. His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color.

You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

I think passion in a physical way goes hand in hand with taste and smell.

Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

I'm a very good clearer-upper!

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

In any professional sports, in general, the community and the team go hand and hand.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

We celebrities have stiff upper-lips.

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

Fashion and nightlife, the catwalk and the club, are notorious for going hand-in-hand.

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

I grew up upper middle class.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand.

Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' . . . 'you need to protect this victory.'

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

The fashion and the rap go hand in hand with New York City.

When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad. We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt. The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart. The hand is the hand of God. The nail is the nail of God. And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.

My lower and upper teeth had to be removed.

I am a firm believer that transparency goes hand in hand with collective intelligence.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

I have no upper arm strength!

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.

Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.