Hands Quotes

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem is my best ideas come while I'm driving or showering.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.

I have two hands. I can hold two medals.

Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.

I'm a fan of things I can get done fast! It feels awesome because it heats up in your hand, and leaves your skin tingly and clean.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)

You still haven’t eaten your muffin. (Sunshine) ‘Yeah, right. He still hadn’t eaten his boots either, and he’d rather feast on one of them than that thing in her hand.’ (Talon)

Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. "Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a tropphy.

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)

What are you doing? (Amanda) I'm getting into my car. (Kyrian) You own this?! (Amanda) No. I'm stealing it with the key in my hand. (Kyrian)

Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek) I’ll find Jericho. (Astrid) Um, could you at least wait until that thing’s housebroken? (Jericho)

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I've ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah.

God! Whose hand was I holding?

Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

Emma, your granddad’s on the line,” says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. “Something about the night bus and he’ll never trust you again?

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.

You know what they say about guys with big hands.