Hands Quotes

He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

I do a lot of vintage shopping. I love going to second-hand stores.

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved.

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

What lovely things Thy hand hath made.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.

Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.