Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
WorkLanguageHandsUpSlangGoes
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe
WorkGodArtHandsHold
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
Claude Monet
MomentBeachI AmAmazingHandsNow
If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
ServiceFightingChurchHandsHim
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Xenophanes
WorkMenHandsCattleWouldAble
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
Rowan Williams
MyselfTrustHandsFindInevitable
Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.
Timothy Olyphant
WorkBestStepForwardGeniusHands
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
Sandra Bullock
FeelHandsPotatoesBigI Feel Like
Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.
Cain Velasquez
GoodPowerFightToughHandsQuick
I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
Matthew Heineman
GovernmentLawHandsOwnFailTake
The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.
Chuck Palahniuk
BestHandsYouNeverFluNeed
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
Gijs de Vries
CommunityKeyHandsTerrorism
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo
ForwardHandsYouClockHourShall
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren
GodPowerBestManOpinionHands
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
Richard V. Allen
LoveGodChildrenHandsYouCountry
I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
Ray Walston
HandsTryingCareerBuildLeaving
My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
Aaron Paul
JobSpeakThinkHandsBadDown
Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.
Anna Getty
HandsYouDirtAfraidBuyGet
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
BookSpeechHandsAuthorityLike
We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim.
Gregorio Sablan
LifeActionHandsDangerousCongress
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois
HandsClassIgnorantNakedLoose
Some of those 10, nine-year vets, they know some things that your typical college senior wouldn't. I've come across some guards in the NFL that know how to use their hands better than D-linemen in college. I guess they've learned from their enemies.
Mike Daniels
CollegeBetterHandsKnowEnemies
We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.
Richard Lamm
WorldProblemSolutionHandsSee
Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. A 2-year-old with the physical capacities of an adult would be terrifying.
Paul Bloom
SurviveStrongEnoughHandsCapable
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