Hands Quotes

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, "I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

The Dawn is a wild, fair woman, With sunrise in her hair; Look where she stands, with pleading hands, To lure me there.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Death lays his icy hand on kings.

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.