Hands Quotes

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Our Redeemer ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hands to everyone. He opens His heart and says, 'Come to Me, all of you.'

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.