Quotes about hands
hands knives eating
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. Jonathan Swift
hands whales amusement
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
hands government may
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
hands giving people
It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament. Jonathan Rosen
hands gleaning vines
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. Jonathan Sacks
hands sides
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side. Jonathan Safran Foer
hands philosopher cruelty
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
hands time-passing wanted
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
hands silence broke
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
hands making-love touching
I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?
hands fabric comfortable
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible. Narciso Rodriguez
hands giving support
With folded hands I say, give me your support & I will give Surajya. Narendra Modi
hands growth india
Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.
hands mind desire
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form. Napoleon Hill
hands wounds-and-scars choices
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns. Lois McMaster Bujold
hands people giving
The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world. Liz Murray
hands people bills
The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96. Lyn Nofziger
hands talking mad
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. Lynda Barry
hands intuition watches
Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.
hands suffering atmosphere
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. Lyndon B. Johnson
hands ideas political
If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.
hands funny-things people
One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist. Luke Evans
hands ass egotism
I'm ambidextrous, I slap ass with both hands. Ludacris
hands people darkness
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television. Luciano Berio
hands eccentric holding-on
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand. Louise Jameson
hands able jocks
Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them. Louise Rennison
hands georgia-nicolson
And that's when it fell off in my hand
hands land constitution
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land Lorenzo Snow
hands assuming contempt
Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. Lord Byron
hands bridges venice
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.
hands years land
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
hands glory hand-in-hand
Glory and gore go hand in hand. Lorde
hands order people
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. Lord Chesterfield