Hands Quotes

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.

Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.

It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.

The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

I don’t cry when I lose. There’s always a new hand coming up.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.