Quotes about hands
hands world each-day
Hands make the world each day. Pablo Neruda
hands touching earth
What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?
hands giving sorrow
Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.
hands suffering fists
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. Plautus
hands office democracy
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot. Plato
hands people words-of-wisdom
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
hands cookies balanced
A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands. Paula Deen
hands matter way
If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear. Phil Jackson
hands people working-together
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand. Martin Puryear
hands years personality
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society. Martin Rees
hands cities ideas
During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections. Martin Scorsese
hands water gone
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. Leonardo da Vinci
hands historical wheels
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. Lech Walesa
hands said wrists
Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist. Lee Child
hands quality cliffs
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
hands winner competitors
I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand, LeBron James
hands flesh pages
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life. Laurie R. King
hands opposites trying
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler. Laura Mennell
hands accomplishment soldier
...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier. Laini Taylor
hands stones smooth
The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.
hands wings want
I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.
hands drawing dancing
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.
hands names skulls
Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her astonishment, she did it again. “Simon…” “Yes?” A new tension had entered his long, hard body, and at the same time, his hand moved over the shape of her skull in the softest caress possible. “Please… take me to my room.” Hunt tilted her head back gently and regarded her with a sudden faint smile playing on his lips. “Sweetheart, I would take you to Timbuktu if you asked. Lisa Kleypas
hands people giving
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.
hands evil perfect
You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work.” Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. “But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I’ve ever known.
hands two wish
I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars Johnny Depp
hands fascism
Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans. John T. Flynn
hands people black
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. John Shelton Reed
hands giving justice
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative. John Shelby Spong
hands fortune frugality
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. John Ray
hands gloves firsts
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! James Joyce
hands water i-can
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?
hands long
The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. James Robertson