Quotes about hands
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 differences making-a-difference
You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.” She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. “From where I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took. Nora Roberts
hands saws i-loved-you
I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.
hands trying littles
We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible. Nikos Kazantzakis
hands together floating
For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating. Nicolaus Copernicus
hands numbers hip-hop
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. Nas
hands top-down choices
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
hands bears imagine
He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God. N. Scott Momaday
hands way firsts
First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. N. T. Wright
hands listening stranger
Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. Miranda Hart
hands hair noses
I moved his hair out of his face. I put my hand under his nose and felt gentle, even breaths. I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It’s not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told. Miranda July
hands people want
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear. Johnny Mathis
hands busy
You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy. John Wilson
hands score baskets
It takes 10 hands to score a basket John Wooden
hands honor may
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands. John Ruskin