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Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. -- Andrew Michael Ramsay
I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy. -- Eric Thomas
She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play -- Thomas Hardy
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. -- Voltaire
I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands. -- Gilbert Gottfried
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. -- Claude C. Hopkins
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. -- Hermione Gingold
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. -- Thomas Sowell
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. -- Learned Hand
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago. -- Tommy Franks
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. -- Jonathan Carroll
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. -- Nas
I definitely have some stereotypical qualities of being a Latina. I talk with my hands, which means I knock stuff over all the time. -- Bitsie Tulloch
I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. -- Alexa Ray Joel
Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap. -- Daphne Guinness
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas. -- Brian Eno
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time. -- Bobby Seale
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand. -- Gore Verbinski
I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time. -- George Clooney
My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time. And now I made some list. I guess Jennifer Garner is on the top of the list for best hands and I'm fourth down. But that's for people who really like an NBA star's hands. -- Eliza Coupe
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
He hath shook hands with time. -- John Ford
Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. -- Nalo Hopkinson
President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time. -- F. W. de Klerk
Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. -- Jeremy Scott
I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time. -- Scott Adams
I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time. -- Amy Schumer
When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands. -- Rita Ora
Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands. -- Lois Greiman
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. -- Sherman Alexie
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. -- Robin Sharma
Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler. -- Barry Lane
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. -- George Soros
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. -- Patricia Schroeder
Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands. -- Chris LeDoux
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. -- Alan Valentine
From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands. -- Ann Rutherford
He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him. -- Scottie Pippen
Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact. -- Robert M. Hensel
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. -- J. G. Holland
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. -- Barry Manilow
Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick. -- Moe Norman
The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death) -- Darren Shan
Time on my hands since you been away boy I ain't got no plans, no no no no. -- Mary J. Blige
My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up. -- Leah LaBelle
As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons. -- Joleon Lescott
Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow. -- Catherine McAuley
Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation. -- Kelly Vang
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. -- Umberto Eco
I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you. -- Elton John
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property. -- Will Durant
The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military -- Nnimmo Bassey
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. -- John Entwistle
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. -- Anthony Doerr
If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies. -- George MacDonald
One way at a time I'll try to lend these broken hands of mine give my strength, be my light. -- Joe Brooks
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept. -- Hugh Prather
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. -- Agatha Christie
You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant. -- Chelsea Cain
As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden. -- Michael Winner
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago -- Tommy Franks
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He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time. -- Bob Dylan
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. -- Mark Twain
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there. -- Willem de Kooning
If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money. -- Bill Lipschutz
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. -- Stacy Schiff
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. -- Ovid
Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing. -- Laura Lam
I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them. -- Woody Allen
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me. -- Jan Karon
A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. -- Ryan Phillippe
You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you. -- Tiger Woods
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable. -- Chris Moneymaker
You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love. -- Debasish Mridha
My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Victory is in our hands! It's time for our legends to begin! Don't tremble, and don't you dare cry! Come on, show some energy! -- Nobuyuki Fukumoto
In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was. -- Sijie Dai
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands. -- Nelson Mandela
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes. -- Charles Dickens
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. -- Dean Koontz
It doesn't take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn't take long to drop it, does it? -- Richard Bach
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped. -- Ken Wilber
In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. -- Gene Simmons
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. -- Billy Williams
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots. -- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals. -- Joseph Addison
Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere. -- Gabrielle Giffords
I'm so pumped about joining 'Y&R' - I watch it all the time and can't wait to get in there and get my hands dirty! -- Justin Hartley
Dreaming of another time,Dreaming of clasping your hands so tight,Dreaming of another time,Dreaming of the shipwreck that is in my heart would end -- Tanzy Sayadi
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter. -- Carl Sagan
Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands. -- Selena
Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. -- Robert Bly
He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference. -- Veronica Roth
My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world. -- Meryl Streep
It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven. -- Roy Harper
My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers. -- David Twohy
You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor. -- Louis Pasteur
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna. -- Giuseppe Verdi
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands. -- Chrissie Hynde
So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights. -- John Barnes
Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost. -- Donita K. Paul
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. -- Van Jones

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