#hands

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#achieved #effort #hands #his #how

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#having #head #man #paid #them

You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands. ↗

— Johann Nepomuk Hummel

#complexities #devilish #difficulties #except #features

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#hands #infrastructure #our #own #remain

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. ↗

— James Inhofe

#american #block #blood #cell #concerned

His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#about #air #been #charge #get

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. ↗

— Van Jones

#cannot #colleagues #conscience #deck #defending

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#around #basketball #brothers #contests #could

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ↗

— Carl Jung

#hands #intellect #mystery #often #solve