Hands Quotes

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head

The hand is quicker than the eye is, but somewhat slower than the fly is.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.