Hands Quotes

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?

Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

I come alive when I look into my boyfriend's eyes, when I embrace him, when I hold his hand and I am completely present and appreciative of all his love.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you.

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. “I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I’m with you. Just tell me what I have to do.

Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day

I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and giving people the finger?" "What? It's a classic.

You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.

I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?" I swallowed. "Uh... sure." My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?

I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.

He took one of my hands in his, and I brought the other to his face, wondering how his eyes could look like chipped ice and still warm me to my core.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

I'm in the hands of Jesus.

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.

your hands are tough but there mine belong in

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.