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Offering a hand up is not a hand-out. -- Clara Barton
Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward. -- Hugh Jackman
No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. -- Joan Rivers
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. -- Doris Grumbach
It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you. -- Ricky Ponting
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. -- Jeremy Bentham
Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us. -- Alex Ferguson
Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. -- Jay Asher
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet. -- Allison Janney
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. -- Johnny Winter
You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time. -- Bill Murray
I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all. -- Michael N. Castle
To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success. -- James Langevin
Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. -- Joan Rivers
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. -- Abraham Lincoln
When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it -- Trot Nixon
I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe. -- Richard Parks Bland
When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. -- M.I.A.
When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that. -- Claire Danes
You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. -- Owen Hart
He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end? -- John L. Parker Jr.
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days. -- Desmond Tutu
Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species? -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway. -- Sylvester Stallone
Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand up the dress of somebody who goes around calling herself something like Ms.? It's all so stupid. -- Patti Smith
You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening. -- Jeanette Winterson
Actually I'm taking her for a ride," I say slyly, inching my hand up the back of Ella's leg and she slaps the back of my head playfully. "I'm taking you for a ride in my car. And you think I'm the pervert. -- Jessica Sorensen
There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die. -- Walt Whitman
The division seems rather unfair," I remarkedYou have doneall the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones getsthe credit, pray what remains for you?""For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains thecocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up forit." -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us. -- Smith Wigglesworth
No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will. -- Karan Johar
Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed. -- Hugo Pratt
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. -- Stephen Ambrose
People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. -- James Caan
I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. -- Dean Martin
I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. -- Lee Daniels
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. -- John McCrae
The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it. -- Hedi Slimane
I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand. -- Chris Eigeman
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. -- Max von Sydow
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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down. -- John Lasseter
I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere. -- Hilarie Burton
My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives. -- Loni Anderson
Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK? -- Rick Santelli
Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. -- Brian Celio
I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out. -- Jim Edgar
I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family. -- Tim Hardaway
I grew up listening to Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. Scottish music cast a huge influence on me. -- Withered Hand
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. -- Learned Hand
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. -- Learned Hand
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star. -- Langston Hughes
The invisible hand never picks up the check. -- Kim Stanley
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. -- Charles Stross
Wimps go up to rebound with one hand, not two. -- Tom Izzo
Wherever the Legionaryâ??s hand and soul show up, a garden appears. -- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand. -- Immortal Technique
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. -- Clay Shirky
I don't cry when I lose. There's always a new hand coming up. -- Sheldon Adelson
I'd shake his hand, but I think that's what's holding up his pants. -- George Lopez
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself. -- Donna de Varona
And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand. -- William S. Burroughs
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. -- Alec Guinness
Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first -- S.A. Bodeen
My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints. -- Rick Majerus
Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night. -- Steven Wright
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. -- Lawrence Durrell
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat. -- Nalini Singh
For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta -- Suzanne Collins
We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early. -- Anthony Michael Hall
The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day. -- Elvis Presley
Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try! -- Tom Lehrer
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? -- Alan Moore
Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star. -- John Assaraf
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. -- Lucille Ball
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth. -- Albert Ellis
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. -- Terry Pratchett
Iko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know. -- Marissa Meyer
Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand -- Jimi Hendrix
I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously? -- Jessica Capshaw
Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender. -- Albert Brooks
Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up? -- Alan Watts
And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed. -- Jennifer Estep
No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give. -- S. D Gordon
Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine? -- Peter Frampton
Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. -- Sarah J. Maas
Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand. -- Paul Ince
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand. -- S.M. Jonas
I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. -- Michael Caine
If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand? -- Cassandra Clare
Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning, and wander through the city with your hand in mine. -- Charlotte Erickson
I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand. -- Richard Brancatisano
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. -- John Lone
To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only. -- Donald McKay
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. -- Voltaire
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.. -- Janet Morris
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand. -- Petrarch
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. -- Yoko Ono
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? -- George Carlin
The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand. -- Swami Vivekananda
No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke -- Melina Marchetta
Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot. -- Tom Heinsohn
Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up -- Joyce Meyer
Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I? -- Neil Gaiman
The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.". -- Aaron Stanford
Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot. -- Jimmy Fallon
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. -- Eva Ibbotson
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. -- Maggie Stiefvater
By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day. -- Andy Andrews
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. -- John Milton
it is night- which remind us-life means to have someone beside you - when you wake up at late night and your hand touch them -- lity munshi
Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you. -- Cressida Cowell
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. -- Etty Hillesum
I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is. -- Tammara Webber

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