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  • On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

    Horse   Hands   Two  
    Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics
  • The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat.

    Wisdom   Men   Hands  
  • The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

    Humor   Hands   Political  
    "A word to the wise" by Alexander Chancellor, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.
  • There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

    Hands   Touching   Voters  
  • The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.

  • When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

    Eye   Hands   Feet  
    Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”
  • You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.59
  • It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

    Horse   Children   Hands  
    Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.86
  • You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

    Hands   Giving   Brain  
    James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.341
  • Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

    Success   Heart   Impact  
  • A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi
  • Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.

    Light   Hands   House  
    "Dominion", (p. 6), March 23, 1992.
  • If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

  • A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

    "The Bush Administration is Caught Half-Way Across a Bridge". Interview with Georg Mascolo, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2007.
  • Rome was not built in one day.

    Rome   Progress   One Day  
    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.223
  • No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good.... But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.

    Wise   Men   Hands  
  • Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.338
  • It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

  • I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?

    Dream   Hands   Soul  
    Jimmy Santiago Baca (2007). “A Place to Stand”, p.102, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

    Golf   Hands   Two  
  • What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

    Source: collider.com
  • Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

    Men   Hands   Knives  
    Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.192, Taylor & Francis
  • Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

    Art   Hard Work   Science  
    John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA
  • As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.

    Hands   Talking   People  
    «From This Week's Billboard: Kid Rock Rides With iTunes» by Jason Lipshutz, www.billboard.com. November 12, 2012.
  • A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.328
  • Many hands make light work.

    Change   Teamwork   Hands  
    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221
  • Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

    Bible   Book   Taken  
  • The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.

  • A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

    Hands   Done   Might  
  • And death makes equal the high and low.

    Death   Woe   Lows  
    "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.
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