Hands Quotes

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

In a weird way, when everyone's feeling that the world's going to hell in a hand basket, I kind of relax a little more because I often feel like that.

No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.

It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.

We believe that peace is at hand.

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.

If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.

Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback?

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

Ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like he rushed it.