Quotes about hands
hands wife earth
A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. Barbara Kingsolver
hands arrogance able
The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
hands house brain
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.
hands promise fit
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.
hands worry hands-of-god
Don't worry. Just leave everything in the hands of God. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
hands debt chance
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. Barbara Ehrenreich
hands directors tests
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!” Ava Gardner
hands scotch glasses
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
hands years glasses
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
hands firsts ashes
We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!] Ashley Giles
hands designer-clothes bears
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder. Ashley Jensen
hands world hats
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world. Berthold Auerbach
hands adequate-knowledge world
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. Benjamin Graham
hands interesting worry
I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something. Bruce Nauman
hands mirrors guitar
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand. Bruce Springsteen
hands wish world
The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right. Brian Tracy
hands toss pedestrians
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. Brendan Behan
hands focus accountability
If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand. Brad Garlinghouse
hands shapes might
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then." Jane Hirshfield
hands weight unyielding
Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands growth benefits
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. Jamie Dimon
hands curiosity friendly
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way. James Whitcomb Riley
hands needs sometimes
Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold. James Vincent McMorrow
hands civilization female
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. Camille Paglia
hands games focus
My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand. Cal Ripken, Jr.
hands car feminist
A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture. Caitlin Moran
hands tables reader
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands? Bruno Schulz
hands class answers
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand. Catherynne M. Valente
hands care want
We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands Carl Icahn
hands scratches opinion
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. Carl Hiaasen
hands facts different
My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism. Carl Jung
hands hiking progress
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.