Two Hands Quotes

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, God, Religious

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.21, B&H Publishing Group

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• We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

  Lauren Child

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

  Tony D'Souza

  Hands, Two, Giving

  Tony D'Souza, Liz Darhansoff (2007). “Whiteman”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

  Avicii

  Hands, Two, World

  Song: Wake Me Up, Album: True, 2013

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Hoarding, Stewardship

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Hands, Two

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• A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Hands, Two, Believer

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• For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
  For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
  For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
  For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
  For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
  People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• You have the blood of warriors in your veins. The kind of men who protect what is theirs and love without restraint. I want that love and I want you. (Gabrielle) It’s all yours. You’re not getting much out of this deal since all I own is what I can carry in two hands. (Carlos) Great. That means I get to decorate the house the way I want. (Gabrielle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Warrior, Men

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• For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Hands, Two, Mouths

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• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Prayer, Hands

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• These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Hands, Two, Faces

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• I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

  Johnny Depp

  Hands, Two, Wish

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• People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

  Abbe Pierre

  Strong, Hands, Two

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• Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.

  Jeff Mathews

  Believe, Eye, Artist

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• It takes two hands to clap.

  Jiang Zemin

  Teamwork, Hands, Two

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• Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

  Robert Jordan

  Hands, Two, Lost

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

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Hands, Two, Sound

  As quoted in "Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin" translated by Norman Waddell, (p. 179), 2010.

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• The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Eye, Science, Moon

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• What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Two, Gold

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• It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Writing, Eye, Hands

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Hands, Opposites

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.70, Oxford University Press, USA

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