Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“Power and speed be hands and feet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)