Hands Quotes

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Today's Multiple Choice Thought There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in: a. the bedroom b. the nursery c. the garden

I wanna be the smile you put on your face. I wanna be your hands when you say your grace. I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh I just wanna be close

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.

I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.” “She needed a ride.” I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?” “Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

I sign so many autographs, my hand hurts every day.