#finger

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ↗

— Diogenes

#being mad #breadth #finger #mad #men

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#fingers #hand #helping #helping hand #offering

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #fingers #handle #happen #make

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#am #amazed #dirt #everyday #fingernails

I've got my finger in a lot of pies. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#got #i #lot #pies

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#basically #click #could #days #fingers

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#finger #i #i remember #kidnapped #more

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#during #fingers #i #my own #own

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#convince #ears #every #eyes #fingertips

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant