Hands Quotes

Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart.

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on the task at hand and enjoy my experiences and day.

I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Gosh, it was nice talking to you, but I’ve got a lot of things I’d rather be doing. Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.