For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.
I didn't need to be rescued. " "Sorry, but my sword outranks your…" she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of the affections and choice of the heart. So God was served in the letter, they did not much inquire into His purpose; and therefore they were curious to wash their hands, but cared not to purify their hearts.
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.
The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.
You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.
Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
