Left Hand Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Girl, Hands

  "Nature of Life: A Study on Muscle". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 1948.

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• Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Men, Hands, Use

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• More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.

  Max Weinberg

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

  John Updike

  Divorce, Golf, Aunt

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• Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly. Raising it closer to her face, she examined the design. It was the simplest of all the rings, a polished gold band engraved with the words Tha Gad Agam Ort. “What does this mean?” she asked MacPhee. “It says, ‘My love is upon ye.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Love Is, Hands

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• She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor’s tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Hands, Allies

  Ally Carter (2013). “Double Crossed (Free Story)”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

  Al Di Meola

  Running, Player, Hands

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• He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death... Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. ... He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. ... The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  War, Eye, Hands

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• Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Humility, Hands

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• . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

  Ruth Benedict

  Children, Hands, Watches

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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• I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Hands, Painting, Company

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• Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Hands, Sorrow, Dresses

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• At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

  Edwyn Collins

  Hands, Ducks, Finishing

  Source: www.vice.com

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• Women have it good when it comes to masturbation. Guys, we just have our hands. For the rest of our lives, that's it. Sometimes your friend will go, 'Ever try your left hand? It's like a whole different person.' Yeah, a retarded person.

  Jay Mohr

  Hands, Guy, Trying

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• They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Hands, Concerts, Very Good

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

  Karl Marx

  Moving, Hands, Democracy

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• Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Jesus, Teaching, Reading

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• People will say you should quit running if you're a slow runner. Or you should quit basketball if you can't dribble with your left hand. I don't agree with that. If you're not a very good reader at 14, nobody thinks you should stop reading.

  Timothy Shriver

  Basketball, Running, Reading

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

  Hope Davis

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

  Ted Lowe

  Hands, Years, Age

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• I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.

  Charles Shackleford

  Sports, Hands, I Can

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• Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

  Vince Neil

  Kings, Hands, Pills

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• The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Real, Humility, Men

  "Anti-Goeze (1778)". "God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens. Chapter 19, 2007.

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• Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.

  Solomon

  Men, Hands, Understanding

  "Proverbs". 3:13-15,

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