Hands Quotes

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

No one wants to be a polarizer, but on the other hand, if you think you're doing right and you believe the decisions you make will lead to a better tomorrow, then they're worthy of defense.

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.

I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

When a guy is into you, he lets you know it. He calls, he shows up, he wants to meet your friends, he can't keep his eyes or hands off of you.

There is always someone there to lend a hand.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?