Quotes about hands
hands order doubt
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini. Anthony Eden
hands forever might
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Anthony Doerr
hands years orchestra
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around. Anthony Daniels
hands gone phrases
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate. Anne Taintor
hands countenance
the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ... Anna Katharine Green
hands squat ifs
When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will Anna Lee
hands said made
Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ... Anne Sexton
hands kitchen faces
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
hands house ashes
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all. Anne Rice
hands mythology i-can
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
hands vampire red
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
hands land ideas
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands. Anna Deavere Smith
hands glasses moments
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand Andrew Solomon
hands style definitions
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. Andre Maurois
hands dirt lows
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt. Andrew Davies
hands injustice burden
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. Ambrose Bierce
hands skills able
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
hands littles degrees
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
hands action humans
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
hands bird
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
hands tree splinters
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
hands careers quality
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.
hands arms pockets
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
hands order rivers
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river. Alice Oswald
hands jewels games
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where? Anne Morrow Lindbergh
hands creative mind
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
hands take-my-hand medicare
I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir. Allen West
hands jars cookies
I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar
hands tree use
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then. Aesop
hands tyrants evil
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
hands smitten feathers
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten. Aeschylus
hands
We'll take anything we can get our hands on.
hands justice lay searching
What I'm searching for is not vengeance. It's justice. It's frustrating, because you want to lay hands on the perpetrator immediately you want justice to be done immediately.