#hand

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#almost #could #difficult #excellent #found

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. ↗

— Freya Stark

#am #faith #hands #hold #i

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal #democratic

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#good #hand #holding #life #matter

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#going #hand #i #i wonder #just

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do. ↗

— Andy Summers

#been #best #ever #hands #i

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created. ↗

— Andy Summers

#created #else #get #hands #head

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fail #handy #ideas #very #words

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#also #another #congress #disaster #handled

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#beneficial #effects #freedom #granted #known