Quotes about hand
hands looks rabbits
call out if you need a hand. if she looks like she's going to have you, i'll sneak up behind her and whach her on the head with a stiff rabbit Erin Hunter
hands body weakness
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. Florence Kelley
hands earth want
What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it. Henry Miller
hands way purpose
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. Helen Keller
hands people joy
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Helen Keller
hands each-day possibility
Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities. Helen Keller
hands want comeback
Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback? Cassandra Clare
hands rocks forever
That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure. Cassandra Clare
hands tears together
And you won’t leave me?” “No.” Alec said. “No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.” “Never.” Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec wasn’t holding, and pressed it fiercely. “Lightwoods, all together.” She whispered. Jace's hand was suddenly damp where she was holding it, and he realized she was crying, her tears splashing down crying for him, because she loved him; even after everything that had happened, she still loved him. They both did. He fell asleep like that, with Isabelle on one side of him and Alec on the other, as the sun came up with the dawn. Cassandra Clare
hands ships faces
I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know." He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself. Cassandra Clare
hands looks gabriel
A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus. “I’m Gabriel.” Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me. Cassandra Clare
hands people want
And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go. Cassandra Clare
hands vision guilt
And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me? Cassandra Clare
hands white hair
under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out. Cassandra Clare
handsome may lovable
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope? George Eliot
hands letters kind
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand. George Eliot
hands glasses bird
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke. George Eliot
hands punishment pity
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves? George Eliot
hands blood bully
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil. Gore Vidal
hands trying weapons
We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand. Hassan Nasrallah
hands sometimes moments
Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. Harold Pinter
hands together half
Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like. Jaime Hernandez
hands people hug
I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands. Jaimie Alexander
hands long age
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life Jacques Chirac
hands history hats
[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. Jacques Barzun
hands two soul
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time. Jacques Barzun
hands light brain
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. James Geary
hands english-history america
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard. James G. Frazer
hands catholic magic
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility. James G. Frazer
hands needs may
And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us. James Frey
hands climbing tree
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself. J. R. R. Tolkien
hands victory ifs
If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. J. R. R. Tolkien
hands trouble said
Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we! J. R. R. Tolkien