Strong Hands Quotes

• Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Strong, Hands, Greater

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1926). “The Bent Twig”

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• Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

  Hugh Black

  Strong, Mean, Dark

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• You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Strong, Successful

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• The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

  Charles Williams

  Strong, Hands, Crowns

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• The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, Work, Humorous

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• I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.

  Robin Trower

  Strong, Hands, Years

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• In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

  Javan

  Strong, Heart, Eye

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• Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Strong, Hands, May

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• I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.

  Eva Mendes

  Strong, Nice, Hands

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her... Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Hands, Practice

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• In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (1922). “Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

  Julian Grenfell

  Strong, War, Night

  Julian Grenfell, “Into Battle”

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• It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

  Agatha Christie

  Running, Strong, Book

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  Sam Waterston

  Strong, Business, Fate

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• The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Media, Hands

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Strong, Fate, Men

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• To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

  Melvil Dewey

  Strong, Heart, Greatness

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• The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Hands

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• If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

  Martin Buber

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Strong, Heart, Hands

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• I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

  Daniel Handler

  Strong, Jealous, Makeup

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• The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Strong, Hands

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• You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Hands, Forever

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