Hands Quotes

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.