#hands

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#clock #digital #every #every time #hands

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#hands #happy #know #line #one thing

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#brothers #cannot #condemn #fold #go

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#hands #immediately #information #lives #often

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#fundamentalism #hands #key #moderate #muslims

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it. ↗

— John Warnock

#building #company #could #employer #ever

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. ↗

— Timothy West

#authorities #back #buy #council #derelict

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! ↗

— Davy Crockett

#chance #fame #fellow #greased #hands

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ↗

— Norm Crosby

#duty #enough #fate #get #go