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Hands Quotes

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

Power People Black Hands White Born

The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my life.

Laura van den Berg

Life Moment Husband My Life Hands

In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.

John Ralston Saul

Government Problems Short Hands New

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

War Hands You Sword Go Cannot

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

Police War Democracy Hands Country

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

Culture People Law Hands Values

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Words Loved Hands Candy Always Up

I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.

Martin McGuinness

Wife Me Army Friends Hands Person

I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.

Eyes Broken Me Hurt Hands Body

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

People Hands I Can Talk Anything

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

Book Hands I Can Touch My Own Own

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

Hands You Trouble Out Still He

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

God Hair Thank God Hands Legs Right

I remember being in my house from when I was, like, five to when I was, like, 12. When hurricanes would happen, you just hold hands, and you say, 'You know what, we have each other. We're praying,' and this roof can literally peel off of your house.

Remember Hands You House Know Say

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

Great Challenges Hands Chair Meet

People always want to compare their hands to mine. Pretty much everywhere I go.

People Hands Go Want Always Pretty

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Queen Hands Long Way Bus Going

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

History Hands Hand Metal Inferior

Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The terrorists' explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations - telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion.

Hope Hate Religion War Speech Hands

I shake hands on the first date.

Hands First Date Shake

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Hands Fame Young Kind Tool Blunt

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

Music Wife Loved Hands Rings Her

If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.

Katherine Kelly

People Theatre Hands You Find Way

Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.

Power Impossible Hands Up Who Saudi

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