Quotes about hand
hands forever promise
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. Richard Le Gallienne
hands long bitterness
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him. Tullian Tchividjian
hands grace down-and
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
hands grace scare
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
hands goofy comedy
I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely. Tracy Spiridakos
hands my-boyfriend stories
My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
hands feelings novelists
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. Saul Bellow
hands play might
You ready to play?" Dave asked, bouncing it. "I don't know," I said. "Are you going to cheat?" "It's street ball!" He said checking it to me. "Show me that love." So chessy, i thought. But as i felt it, solid against my hands, i did feel something. I wasn't sure it was love. Maybe what remained of it, though, whatever that might be. "All right," I said. "Let's play. Sarah Dessen
hands enjoy
I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.
hands done return
I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.
hands missing hitting
It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.
hands missing parks
I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the tips of my fingers: the sand from Commons Park. Oh Cass, I thought. I miss you so, so much.
hands cases against-love
But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
hands doors way
I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.
hands islands hug
Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.
hands long sound
And then he pressed into her. First his thighs, then his middle, his chest, and finally his mouth. She made a whimpering sound, but its definition was unclear even to her, until she realized that her arms had gone around him instinctually, and that she was clutching his back, his shoulders, her hands restless and greedy for the feel of him. He kissed her openmouthed, using his tongue, and when she kissed back, she felt the hum that vibrated deep inside his chest. It was the kind of hungry sound she hadn’t heard in a long time. Masculine and carnal, it thrilled and aroused her. Sandra Brown
hands piano potatoes
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. Sandra Bullock
hands upper-hand assuming
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand. Ronnie Montrose
hands air people
When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own. Ronnie Spector
hands knowing purpose
This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible. Roger Scruton
hands goal people
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.
hands rock-and-roll rocks
Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand. Rod Stewart
hands notes i-can
I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets. Robin Trower
hands interesting boring
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. Robert Silverberg
hands tunnels light
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. Robert Lowell
hands economic economic-power
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few. Robert Ludlum
hands mind
Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands... Sarah Kay
hands years together
After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Sara Gruen
hands house shining
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality. Sara Teasdale
hands shapes mechanic
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
hands giving helping
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand. Samuel Rutherford
hands heaven covenant
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.
hands numbers people
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. Samuel Johnson