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- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
- Dorothee Solle
- I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003
- You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
- We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
- Doc Searls, Doc Searls Weblog, 12-02-06
- Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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