Hands Quotes

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

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

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

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.

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

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

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.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him.

When the coach told me I was playing, I said: 'We're going to Brazil.' It doesn't matter how. If I'd had to score with my hand, the ball would have been in the back of the net.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

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.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other.

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.