#hand

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#hands #i #i see #itself #like

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#disguise #free #free time #handle #life

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ↗

— Richard Cowper

#hands #meet #our #people #shaping

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#call #ears #education #every #hand

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#expect #good #hand #i #i think

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#burning #came #cutting #down #dynasty

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. ↗

— Thomas Dewey

#future #hands #need #our #own

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats. ↗

— DMX

#attention #beat #beats #block #box

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#always #any #creative #first #functioning