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- Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
- Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 33.
- The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.
- Ellen DeGeneres, On Cell phones and driving
- Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
- No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.
- W. Emerson Wright
- The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Stephen Bantu Biko, Speech in Cape Town, 1971
- A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
- Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
- Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard III, Act I, sc. 3
- The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
- The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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