Open Handed Quotes

#1. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

Lady Gregory

#3. Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.

Thomas Cahill

#4. Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Evan Esar

#5. It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Anna White

#6. It gets to painful. You give too much, they take too much, or not enough, and suddenly you find yourself emptied out and open handed, grabbing for some more.

Kate Tempest

#7. Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

C. Christopher Smith

#8. [Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Aristotle.

#9. You give too much, they take too much, they want too much, or not enough, and suddenly you find yourselves emptied out and open-handed, grabbing for some more. She

Kate Tempest

#10. I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.

Kate Lord Brown

#11. Some things just feel so intense. I'm not
over reacting. My sensory processing
is unique to me.

Tina J. Richardson

#12. Kurtz pulled the glove compartment open and handed a set of thermal-imaging goggles to Aleks. He pulled his own pair on over his face. "You get smarter every day: It's light outside, comrade space cadet.

Jack Silkstone

#13. She turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

Ruth Ozeki

#14. How we use our money is the clearest outside indicator of what we really believe ... If someone is a true disciple of Jesus Christ, the evidence will be found in that person's everyday life - including his or her use of money.

Larry Burkett

#15. Help me, defend me, until from praying ground I pass to the realm of unceasing praise. Urged

Anonymous

#16. What the Didache doesn't say is that the community should shun or excommunicate those who commit the forbidden sins. In fact, "correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than your own life" makes plain that the worst sinners should be showered with the most love.

Tony Jones

#17. Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything ... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

Bobbi Brown

#18. There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

John Sculley

#19. A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is never safe, the meaning changes in the channel - becomes tinted, adulterated, absurd, stronger.

Elena Mauli Shapiro

#20. If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.

Tad Williams

#21. In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

#22. It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of ... It's essential that you ... [do] things you can respect and admire.

Ellen Bass

#23. Brrrrrr. Like a lady had handed me a pickle jar that I simply couldn't open, and I wasn't a man anymore.

Tommy Walker

#24. I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.

Will Ferrell

#25. In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

Dan Abnett

#26. A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

Michael Delaware

#28. The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. Seamus walked a direct line to Frank and handed him the gun, backwards, with the barrel open.

Amy Vansant

#30. From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.

John Knowles

#31. Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

Christian Rudder