Hands Quotes

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.

My advice for anyone wanting to direct is that nobody is going to hand you an opportunity. You have to create your own opportunities and not take no for an answer.

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different.

We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places.

Tis the mind must guide the hand.

Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.

We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.

I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand; as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person!

Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!

With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!