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  • I can clap with one hand. -- Aaron Tveit
  • I can count my friends on one hand. -- Barry Zito
  • I write with one hand, but I fight with both. -- Victor Hugo
  • On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. -- Bruce Willis
  • 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 come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -- Yasser Arafat
  • What is the sound of one hand? -- Hakuin Ekaku
  • You cannot clap with one hand alone. -- John Taylor Wood
  • Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand. -- Angela Lambert
  • Wimps go up to rebound with one hand, not two. -- Tom Izzo
  • I can count on one hand how many people I trust. -- Frances Bean Cobain
  • The Gods give with one hand and take with the other. -- George R. R. Martin
  • I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other. -- Vanna Bonta
  • I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me. -- Eric Stoltz
  • How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. -- Harold Ramis
  • Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold -- Van Morrison
  • On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss. -- Laozi
  • Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally. -- Phil Anselmo
  • I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. -- Robert Silverberg
  • We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. -- Karl Barth
  • On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid. -- Christopher Durang
  • When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping. -- Dan Fogelberg
  • Do not let one hand say to the other, 'Stop, for I have already given. -- Judy Azar LeBlanc
  • Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. -- Craig McDonald
  • When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. -- Anthony Horowitz
  • As a lawyer, I hate to use the "on the one hand, but the other". -- Rudy Giuliani
  • For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other. -- Yukio Mishima
  • Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. -- Harry S. Truman
  • My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. -- Ellen Gallagher
  • Scarlet gasped as Wolf buried one hand into her mess of curls and kissed her back. -- Marissa Meyer
  • Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first -- S.A. Bodeen
  • I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator. -- Sebastian Horsley
  • I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other. -- Megan Smith
  • You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand? -- Hakuin Ekaku
  • Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand. -- Rachel Vincent
  • You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • ... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand. -- Robin Morgan
  • On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. -- Ken Thompson
  • I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years. -- Chuck Mangione
  • I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand. -- Jack Markell
  • Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. -- Gillian Flynn
  • While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. -- Boyle Roche
  • I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. -- Colleen McCullough
  • You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other. -- D. Todd Christofferson
  • God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other. -- Thomas Boston
  • My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand. -- Regina Doman
  • A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. -- Brendan Behan
  • It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. -- Simon Critchley
  • When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently. -- Josh Homme
  • I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. -- Chuck Mangione
  • My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with. -- Danica McKellar
  • On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself? -- Jared Leto
  • We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice. -- Arthur Christiansen
  • I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. -- Kendrick Lamar
  • The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs. -- Princess Margaret
  • I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously? -- Jessica Capshaw
  • My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. -- Emo Philips
  • We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other. -- Frida Farrell
  • On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. -- John Calvin
  • The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other. -- Julian Casablancas
  • So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. -- Alton Brown
  • Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other. -- Sue Townsend
  • With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. -- Robert Pollok
  • How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other, -- Henry Jenkins
  • On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. -- Seth
  • I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. -- Chris Patten
  • Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands -- Bob Dylan
  • The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other. -- David Eddings
  • You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. -- Ben Chandler
  • There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. -- Samuel Smiles
  • A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other. -- Confucius
  • Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief. -- Helen Rowland
  • The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
  • The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. -- J. C. Ryle
  • The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
  • The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. -- Arthur Levitt
  • True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other. -- Sai Baba
  • Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general. -- Meital Dohan
  • I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't. -- LaToya Jackson
  • Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right. -- Richelle Mead
  • I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
  • To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only. -- Donald McKay
  • In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention? -- Henry Parkes
  • When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other. -- Sebastian Arcelus
  • 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
  • I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand. -- Philip Larkin
  • There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. -- Rudolf Ladenburg
  • When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
  • I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back. -- Julie Davis
  • ... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts. -- G. H. Hardy
  • That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. -- Psy
  • Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. -- Carrie Snow
  • I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand. -- Dev Patel
  • On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. -- Tom Ford
  • Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. -- Richard Flanagan
  • The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts? -- Swami Vivekananda
  • I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me. -- Richard Virenque
  • Thanks to my grandpa, I can go to France and not be visiting Germany. He single-handedly won WWII (he only has one hand). -- Jarod Kintz
  • For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other. -- Louis Stanley
  • Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! -- Daniel Defoe
  • The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain. -- Bill McKibben
  • I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. -- Kim Harrison
  • Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. -- Victor Hugo
  • Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. -- Will Ferrell
  • I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now. -- Lauren Oliver
  • Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice. -- Elie Wiesel
  • With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together. -- Steven J Lawson
  • On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath. -- Lee Maracle
  • The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. -- Steven Spielberg
  • All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. -- August Wilson
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