Fingers Quotes - Page 8

• In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Moving, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.

  Douglas Pagels

  Dream, Distance, Two

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

  Matt Lauer

  Writing, Responsibility, People

  "Matt Lauer: ‘Today’ Is ‘Not Where I Want It To Be ... I Want To Make It Better’" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

  Harry Melling

  Travel, Hate, Would Be

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• I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.

  Holly Madison

  Pigs, Discipline, Healthy

  "Holly Madison Shows Off Her Bikini Bod & Reveals Her Swimsuit Secrets". Star magazine Interview, radaronline.com. July 7, 2011.

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• A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.

  Justin Langer

  Rip, Fighting, Blood

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• A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Hate, Gun, Brain

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• When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.

  Jack Goldstein

  Running, Dark, Light

  Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Russell (2012). “101 Amazing Slenderman Facts”, p.8, Andrews UK Limited

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• I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye
  open.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Taken, Sleep, Eye

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

  David Levithan

  Hands, Years, Feelings

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• I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Records, Spine

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• The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of ElijahIt is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord-not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.

  David A. Bednar

  Communication, Technology, Skills

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• In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.

  Wences Casares

  Moon, Bitcoin, Fool

  "Wences Casares Explains Bitcoin". Chicago Gold Ideas Conference, www.weusecoins.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

  Kevin P. Ryan

  People, Office, Feelings

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

  Paul O'Grady

  Fun, Work, Eye

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• EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Swings, Years, Cynical

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• I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

  Ogden Nash

  Tests, Baths, Chill

  'Samson Agonistes' (1942)

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• And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Pride, Dust

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• You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.

  Ester Dean

  Guitar, Play, Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fire, Keys, May

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Self, Turkeys

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• What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Space, Honor

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.694

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• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Red, Rags

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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