Top 100 In Our Hands Quotes
#1. 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
Yehuda Berg
#2. Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
Marcel Proust
#3. We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W.S. Merwin
#4. The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
Samuel Johnson
#5. And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city
Haruki Murakami
#6. We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. When we're struggling, we don't need a book in our hands. We need the right words in our minds. When things are tough, a mantra does more good than a manifesto.
Eric Greitens
#8. We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants ... If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#9. We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.
Orson Scott Card
#10. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward
Philippa Gregory
#11. It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
Regina Brett
#12. Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.
Lavrentiy Beria
#13. Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
Maria Callas
#14. Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands
Joy Harjo
#15. Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.
Richard Branson
#16. After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
Enid Bagnold
#17. Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
Matthew Henry
#18. Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B.C. Forbes
#19. A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Rebecca West
#20. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#21. 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
#22. To be free ... to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life
that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.
Paul Robeson
#23. It is not a matter of how many loaves we have in our hands, but whether or not God has blessed them.
Watchman Nee
#24. We now have in our hands - really, in our libraries - the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.
Julian Simon
#25. If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
Michael Hansmeyer
#26. We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.
Richard Branson
#27. The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer
#28. If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
Freya Stark
#29. For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
David R. Brower
#30. Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
Margot Fonteyn
#31. Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in thought, and there they are at your disposal, which inspires us to the illusory hope of enjoying a kind of dominion over them.
Marcel Proust
#32. To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#33. But what if things aren't what they seem? As you said, there is no truth in the Digital Sea." "Eventually we must cling to some reality," Mekena said. "Even if we are not sure it is the most real. One can wait for a whole lifetime for the reality we want and miss the one we have in our hands.
Thomas K. Carpenter
#34. Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#35. For us to err, with the Bible in our hands, is the effect of pride, sloth, and carelessness.
Matthew Henry
#36. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.
Terry Tempest Williams
#37. I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity
Brian Kiteley
#38. It's like the Vatican's porn collection," Zeb told her. "Safe in our hands.
Margaret Atwood
#39. Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy
because we will always want to have something else or something more.
David Steindl-Rast
#40. To know a thing does not enable us, always, to prevent its happening, but after all the things that we know we do hold, if not in our hands, at any rate in our minds, where we can dispose of them as we choose, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power to control them.
Marcel Proust
#41. It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
Prince Philip
#42. But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Gustave Flaubert
#43. The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
Moshe Dayan
#44. Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise.
James Baldwin
#45. We should have communicated to Iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options. They're not just on the table, they are in our hands.
Mitt Romney
#46. Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
Alan Keyes
#48. Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.
Gus Van Sant
#49. We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.
Robert Musil
#50. For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#51. We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
Diane Frolov
#52. All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Pico Iyer
#53. Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it
Anamika Mishra
#54. We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
Carl Sagan
#55. Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.
Willa Cather
#57. The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
Seneca The Younger
#58. Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.
Country Joe McDonald
#59. The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#60. We are all born equal, and even if we are not, the future is still in our hands.
Manoj Arora
#61. This is a mess. A mess! Shraplin, you're probably sober-esque. How many cards in a standard deck?"
"Sixty, boss."
"How many cards presently visible in our hands or on the table?"
"Seventy-eight."
"That's ridiculous," said Amarelle. "Who's not cheating?
Scott Lynch
#62. Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
Edmund Burke
#63. We've all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren't afraid, control life itself.
Richard Ramirez
#64. What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#65. A baby is a smiling, dancing moon in our hands just waiting to touch our hearts.
Debasish Mridha
#66. We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#67. Books are adventures we can hold in our hands! Taking us to places that we only dreamed of.
Carmela Dutra
#68. The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence by artificial means, although a control of it might obviously place the process of evolution in our hands.
Hermann Joseph Muller
#69. I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.
Debbie Macomber
#70. We will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings.
Anonymous
#71. We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#73. Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.
Shari Arison
#74. We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
Ban Ki-moon
#75. 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
#76. All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.
Tom Regan
#77. Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not.
Henry L. Stimson
#78. Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future: to be rich, poor, or middle class.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#79. It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#81. When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!
Harriet Prescott Spofford
#82. I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
Golda Meir
#83. Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory.
The first on to use it will win.
Marcial MacIel
#84. Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.
Nicky Singer
#85. We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.
Frank Miller
#86. When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#87. Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.
Cesar Aira
#88. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
#89. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.
Boniface Kamau Zablon
#90. I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.
Stephen Wolfram
#91. We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
Rani Mukerji
#92. Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
Charles Studd
#93. By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
Swami Vivekananda
#94. Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
Alexander Pope
#95. We wake out of our dreams and wonder where the blood in our hands came from.
Charles D'Ambrosio
#96. It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it ... In our hands..
Faraz Jaka
#97. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
J.C. Ryle
#99. I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother.'
Franny Armstrong
#100. something got dug up, and whoever's responsible put the shovel in our hands and walked away laughing.
Samuel Sattin
