Quotes about One Hand

I write with one hand, but I fight with both. Votes: 5

I can clap with one hand. Votes: 4

I can count my friends on one hand. Votes: 4

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other. Votes: 4

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. Votes: 4

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. Votes: 4

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. Votes: 4

What is the sound of one hand? Votes: 3

You cannot clap with one hand alone. Votes: 3

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand. Votes: 3

Wimps go up to rebound with one hand, not two. Votes: 3

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other. Votes: 3

I can count on one hand how many people I trust. Votes: 3

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me. Votes: 3

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. Votes: 3

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts. Votes: 3

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold Votes: 3

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss. Votes: 3

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally. Votes: 3

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. Votes: 3

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Votes: 3

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid. Votes: 3

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping. Votes: 3

Do not let one hand say to the other, 'Stop, for I have already given. Votes: 3

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. Votes: 3

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. Votes: 3

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. Votes: 3

As a lawyer, I hate to use the "on the one hand, but the other". Votes: 3

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other. Votes: 3

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. Votes: 3

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. Votes: 3

Scarlet gasped as Wolf buried one hand into her mess of curls and kissed her back. Votes: 3

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first Votes: 3

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator. Votes: 3

I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other. Votes: 3

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand? Votes: 3

Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand. Votes: 3

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. Votes: 3

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand. Votes: 3

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. Votes: 3

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years. Votes: 3

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking. Votes: 3

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand. Votes: 3

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Votes: 3

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. Votes: 3

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. Votes: 3

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other. Votes: 3

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other. Votes: 3

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand. Votes: 3

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. Votes: 3

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. Votes: 3

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently. Votes: 3

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. Votes: 3

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other. Votes: 3

I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with. Votes: 3

On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself? Votes: 3

We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice. Votes: 3

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. Votes: 3

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs. Votes: 3

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously? Votes: 3

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. Votes: 3

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other. Votes: 3

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. Votes: 3

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other. Votes: 3

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. Votes: 3

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other. Votes: 3

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. Votes: 3

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand. Votes: 3

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other, Votes: 3

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. Votes: 3

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. Votes: 3

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands Votes: 3

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other. Votes: 3

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. Votes: 3

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. Votes: 3

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. Votes: 3

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other. Votes: 3

Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. Votes: 3

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other. Votes: 3

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief. Votes: 3

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor. Votes: 3

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. Votes: 3

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. Votes: 3

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. Votes: 3

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. Votes: 3

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other. Votes: 3

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general. Votes: 3

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't. Votes: 3

Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right. Votes: 3

I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much. Votes: 3

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only. Votes: 3

In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention? Votes: 3

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other. Votes: 3

If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand? Votes: 3

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand. Votes: 3

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. Votes: 3

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one. Votes: 3

I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back. Votes: 3

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts. Votes: 3

That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. Votes: 3

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. Votes: 3

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand. Votes: 3

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. Votes: 3

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. Votes: 3

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts? Votes: 3

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me. Votes: 3

Thanks to my grandpa, I can go to France and not be visiting Germany. He single-handedly won WWII (he only has one hand). Votes: 3

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. Votes: 3

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other. Votes: 3

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! Votes: 3

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain. Votes: 3

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. Votes: 3

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. Votes: 3

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. Votes: 3

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now. Votes: 3

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice. Votes: 3

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together. Votes: 3

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath. Votes: 3

The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. Votes: 3

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. Votes: 3

For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other. Votes: 3

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. Votes: 3

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people. Votes: 3

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. Votes: 3

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other. Votes: 3

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other. Votes: 3

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand. Votes: 3

The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal. Votes: 3

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too. Votes: 3

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Votes: 3

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. Votes: 3

P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other. Votes: 3

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games. Votes: 3

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other. Votes: 3

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives. Votes: 3

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving. Votes: 3

You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time. Votes: 3

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other. Votes: 3

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her." Votes: 3

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. Votes: 3

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work. Votes: 3

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money. Votes: 3

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. Votes: 3

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand. Votes: 3

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. Votes: 3

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him! Votes: 3

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. Votes: 3

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. Votes: 3

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence. Votes: 3

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other. Votes: 3

I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. Votes: 3

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad. Votes: 3

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Votes: 3

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other. Votes: 3

I'm conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there's this really awesome restaurant I've been wanting to try out. Votes: 3

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. Votes: 3

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience. Votes: 3

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region. Votes: 3

I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them. Votes: 3

It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other. Votes: 3

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you. Votes: 3

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.' Votes: 3

True freedom is an empty cup, because it can be filled with anything. Freedom sounds great, until someone hands it to you, and then it just makes you thirsty. Votes: 3

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. Votes: 3

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we! Votes: 3

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic. Votes: 3

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. Votes: 3

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job. Votes: 3

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. Votes: 3

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. Votes: 3

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. Votes: 3

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. Votes: 3

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. Votes: 3

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe. Votes: 3

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe. Votes: 3

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe. Votes: 3

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. Votes: 3

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. Votes: 3

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable. Votes: 3

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain. Votes: 3

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand. Votes: 3

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through. Votes: 3

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. Votes: 3

I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept one hand down his pants. Votes: 3

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended. Votes: 3

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life. Votes: 3

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue. Votes: 3

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand. Votes: 3

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance. Votes: 3

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition. Votes: 3

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other. Votes: 3

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so. Votes: 3

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other Votes: 3

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. Votes: 3

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand. Votes: 3

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy? Votes: 3

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.' Votes: 3

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. Votes: 3

The more you focus on connection the more free you are on one hand and the more free you can be because the child does feel authentically connected to their destiny. Votes: 3

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand. Votes: 3

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down. Votes: 3

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman. Votes: 3

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand. Votes: 3

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks. Votes: 3

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back. Votes: 3

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other. Votes: 3

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing. Votes: 3

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. Votes: 3

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there. Votes: 3

Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. Votes: 3

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story. Votes: 3

The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action. Votes: 3

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. Votes: 3

Growing up, I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from 'I Dream of Jeannie' on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me. Votes: 3

I don't think Donald Trump should be allowed within 1,000 miles of our shore because he would embolden the EDL on the one hand and fuel the flames of terrorism on the other hand. Votes: 3

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) Votes: 3

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping. Votes: 3

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other Votes: 3

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born. Votes: 3

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other. Votes: 3

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know? Votes: 3

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. "I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. Votes: 3

When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer. Votes: 3

My knees were weak but he held me with one hand, guiding me with the motion of his hips. I was completely his to do with what he wanted and he knew it. Votes: 3

The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other. Votes: 3

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance. Votes: 3

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice. Votes: 3

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other. Votes: 3

Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment. Votes: 3

Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests. Votes: 3

When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it Votes: 3

You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him! Votes: 3

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path. Votes: 3

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand. Votes: 3

On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup. Votes: 3

We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment. Votes: 3

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace. Votes: 3

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it. Votes: 3

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace. Votes: 3

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own. Votes: 3

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios. Votes: 3

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself. Votes: 3

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution. Votes: 3

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. Votes: 3

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. Votes: 3

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other. Votes: 3

When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark. Votes: 3

Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long! Votes: 3

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. Votes: 3

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin. Votes: 3

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. Votes: 3

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. Votes: 3

Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand - I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence - and peace of mind. Votes: 3

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated. Votes: 3

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. Votes: 3

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war. Votes: 3

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it. Votes: 3

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not? Votes: 3

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar. Votes: 3

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other. Votes: 3

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January. Votes: 3

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. Votes: 3

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other. Votes: 3

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Votes: 3

The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow. Votes: 3

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be. Votes: 3

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult. Votes: 3

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. Votes: 3

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. Votes: 3

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry. Votes: 3

Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other. Votes: 3

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig. Votes: 3

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge Votes: 3

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Votes: 3

I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over. Votes: 3

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. Votes: 3

It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other. Votes: 3

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. Votes: 3

My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe Votes: 3

This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such. Votes: 3

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher! Votes: 3

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. Votes: 3

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other. Votes: 3

America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different. Votes: 3

We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement. Votes: 3

You can't turn back technology and you can't turn back authoritarianism. You can't have one hand in the dirt and one hand in the crystal clear water and say that you're clean. That's just the way it is. Votes: 3

When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball. Votes: 3

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them. Votes: 3

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. Votes: 3

Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history. Votes: 3

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life. Votes: 3

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening. Votes: 3

I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films. Votes: 3

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no. Votes: 3

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. Votes: 3

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view. Votes: 3

It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice. Votes: 3

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other. Votes: 3

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always. Votes: 3

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy. Votes: 3

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them. Votes: 3

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home. Votes: 3

It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament. Votes: 3

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible. Votes: 3

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away. Votes: 3

Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all. Votes: 3

So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: "Chances are, you're not going to be mauled by a bear." Votes: 3

If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? Votes: 3

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand. Votes: 3

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Votes: 3

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. Votes: 3

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions. Votes: 3

I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that. Votes: 3

I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!' Votes: 3

I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting. Votes: 3

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand." Votes: 3

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. Votes: 3

Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt? Votes: 3

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. Votes: 3

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful. Votes: 3

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe. Votes: 3

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one. Votes: 3

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. Votes: 3

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. Votes: 3

The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically. Votes: 3

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause. Votes: 3

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. Votes: 3

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people. Votes: 3

On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose," (pp. 49). Votes: 3

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two. Votes: 3

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Votes: 3

Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand. Votes: 3

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders. Votes: 3

I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other. Votes: 3

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. Votes: 3

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy. Votes: 3

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. Votes: 3

I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel. Votes: 3

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. Votes: 3

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. Votes: 3

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature. Votes: 3

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures. Votes: 3

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. Votes: 3

The moment we stepped out into the hall, Cam's apartment door flung open. Ollie appeared, a cellphone in one hand and Raphael wiggling in the other. "Smile!" he shouted as he snapped a picture on his phone. "It's like my two kids are going to prom. Votes: 3

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident. Votes: 3

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry. Votes: 3

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things. Votes: 3

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer. Votes: 3

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know? Votes: 3

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics. Votes: 3

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't. Votes: 3

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that. Votes: 3

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing. Votes: 3

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive. Votes: 3

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. Votes: 3

On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro. Votes: 3

I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me. Votes: 3

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra. Votes: 3

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town. Votes: 3

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. Votes: 3

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off. Votes: 3

She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat. Votes: 3

You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America. Votes: 3

On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl. Votes: 3

I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work. Votes: 3

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. Votes: 3

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't. Votes: 3

I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the final product. But in the same breath, I would say there's no shot in the teaser that I'm not really happy with. Votes: 3

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. Votes: 3

Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back. Votes: 3

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand. Votes: 3

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have. Votes: 3

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. Votes: 3

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world. Votes: 3

He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward me. I swallowed, gazing up at him with what I hoped was an expectant (and not alarmed) expression. He bent his head toward mine and... Votes: 3

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served. Votes: 3

Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar. Votes: 3

The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty. Votes: 3

Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies. Votes: 2

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones. Votes: 2

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. Votes: 2

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. Votes: 2

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. Votes: 2

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. Votes: 2

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. Votes: 2

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened. Votes: 2

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. Votes: 2

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. Votes: 2

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.' Votes: 2

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers. Votes: 2

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide. Votes: 2

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. Votes: 2

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. Votes: 2

One hand washes the other. Votes: 0

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks. Votes: 0

'Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies. Votes: 0

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe. Votes: 0

One hand washes the other.(Manus Manum Lavat) Votes: 0

One hand washeth another, and both the face. Votes: 0

One paints with one's head, not one's hand. Votes: 0

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist. Votes: 0

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful. Votes: 0

Come my little one, and give me your hand. Votes: 0

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold. Votes: 0

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others. Votes: 0

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. Votes: 0

One hand washes the other...both hands wash the face. Votes: 0

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world. Votes: 0

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers. Votes: 0

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Votes: 0

Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended. Votes: 0

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand. Votes: 0

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber. Votes: 0

The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other. Votes: 0

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand. Votes: 0

A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact. Votes: 0

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. Votes: 0

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Votes: 0

In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand. Votes: 0

One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards. Votes: 0

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. Votes: 0

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Votes: 0

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. Votes: 0

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'. Votes: 0

Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Votes: 0

Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand. Votes: 0

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it. Votes: 0

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder. Votes: 0

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart Votes: 0

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. Votes: 0

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins. Votes: 0

As they say - a bird in the hand is worth one in the bush. Votes: 0

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. Votes: 0

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after. Votes: 0

Don't look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity Votes: 0

If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one. Votes: 0

For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand. Votes: 0

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. Votes: 0

Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand. Votes: 0

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..." Votes: 0

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate. Votes: 0

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. Votes: 0

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you. Votes: 0

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. Votes: 0

It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. Votes: 0

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm. Votes: 0

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Votes: 0

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars. Votes: 0

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm. Votes: 0

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. Votes: 0

No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. Votes: 0

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. Votes: 0

Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Votes: 0

One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.] Votes: 0

More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition. Votes: 0

The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom. Votes: 0

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love Votes: 0

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast. Votes: 0

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. Votes: 0

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one. Votes: 0

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. Votes: 0

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. Votes: 0

Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling. Votes: 0

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar. Votes: 0

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand." Votes: 0

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide. Votes: 0

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand. Votes: 0

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him. Votes: 0

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns. Votes: 0

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. Votes: 0

One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go. Votes: 0

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. Votes: 0

Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand. Votes: 0

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. Votes: 0

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot. Votes: 0

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. Votes: 0

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist." Votes: 0

He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones. Votes: 0

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. Votes: 0

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Votes: 0

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand. Votes: 0

One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money. Votes: 0

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. Votes: 0

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. Votes: 0

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream. Votes: 0

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest. Votes: 0

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love. Votes: 0

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. Votes: 0

My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip. Votes: 0

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules. Votes: 0

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride. Votes: 0

I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand Votes: 0

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. Votes: 0

I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping. Votes: 0

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. Votes: 0

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top – what more could one ask of life? Votes: 0