Hands Quotes

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

One hand washeth another, and both the face.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

For me, when I'm coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it's almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

A lot of that will depend on who the person is on [Donald] Trump's, you know, right hand side, whether it's [Stephen] Bannon or whether it's [Reince] Priebus.

One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!