Hand - Quotes
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.
When you bit the hand that fed you, you expected that extended hand to curl into a fist.
I do not know why, how long
can I thus remain for you -
but I hold your lovely hand
and I guard your lovely eyes.
If the soul`s actions are not controlled by rules, that can only mean the soul acts randomly. On the other hand, where is free will located? If your soul is guided by rules, which in turn guide you, then you have no free will. You are programmed. There is no in between; your life is either random or predetermined.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, `Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you`ll find one at the end of your arm.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world`s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.