Hands Quotes

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

We just finished shaking hands with all of the fans. I feel very good. They are cute.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.

Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

Screw that, the questionn at hand is what's your major?" Oded said. "Because let me tell you right now, any answer other than World of Warcraft or Advanced Ninja Studies will not be accepted.

Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

It was just great to be in such great hands [of the Marvel Universe].

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259

Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.

But my hands are in the right place." "Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place." "Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place." And so they were.

Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.

It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.

He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises seemed to pulse with my heartbeat.

And I don't think I want to meet this super-reaper." Nash stuffed his hands in his front pockets. "The garden variety's weird enough.

I think my power comes from my hands.

A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success.

Many people think you shouldn't stop kids from being kids, and I agree, but no one wants the worst case scenario on their hands. Better safe than sorry I say.

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.

The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.