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Quotes About Hands

Remember that Jesus has a body in this world. You are His hands and feet. But remember also that His hands and feet were pierced.
~ Douglas Wilson
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
~ Anne Sexton
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
~ Eugene Fitch Ware
I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications weren't just, but my weaknesses were common.
~ Jimmy Gleacher
I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?
~ Jimmy Santiago Baca
James Davis Nicoll, on the 1962 nominees: "Terry Pratchett has his own sword forged by his own hands from meteoric iron, which must be of considerable utility when negotiating contracts.
~ Jo Walton
He was rarely tender, and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs, though occasionally he would exhibit a sudden concern for another outlaw, hitchhiker, or bum, and go out of his way to see them looked after. He was touching and infinitely fragile. His indescribably white hands moved constantly: putting a cigarette almost to his mouth, then tugging relentlessly at a tuft of hair at his neck, inadvertently dumping the cigarette ashes in dusty cavalcades down his jacket.
~ Joan Baez
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude.
~ Joanna Russ
By the time we reached town, I was still utterly resolved to keep my hands off her…but Taz was at her place, and I didn't trust that asshole for shit. That's why I took her back to my apartment instead…and you can shut right the fuck up about that. I already know I'm a douche.
~ Joanna Wylde
Grave Senators should never let Their angry passions rise, Their little hands were never made To scratch each other's eyes.52
~ Joanne B. Freeman
She was bewitching. Even now when she conceded little more than she had when he'd kissed her last night. She quivered under his hands. He still wasn't sure whether she was excited or frightened. He'd read both curiosity and dread in her pansy eyes. Her thick tortoiseshell hair tickled his fingers. After her wild ride, she looked enchantingly disheveled. It made him contemplate other wild rides he'd like to take with her.
~ Anna Campbell
While he waited, he made up the bed,more to discourage Meg from falling back into it than because he wanted to tidy the room. Besides, running his hands over the sheets and breathing in her scent made him happy
~ Anne Bishop
He hadn't observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates' hands.
~ Anne Bishop
What's a stag stick?" Meg asked, taking the packages. He stared at her for a moment. Then he put a fist below his belt and popped out a thumb. "Oh," Meg said. "Oh." He spun around and ran back to the Market Square. She closed the door, looked at the packages in her hands, and said, "Eeewwww.
~ Anne Bishop
Sore laborers have hard hands and old sinners have brawny consciences.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Do you have change for a dollar? Geryon heard Geryon say. No. Herakles stared straight at Geryon. But I'll give you a quarter for free. Why would you do that? I believe in being gracious. Some hours later they were down at the railroad tracks standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead scattering drops of itself. You're cold, said Herakles suddenly, your hands are cold. Here. He put Geryon's hands inside his shirt.
~ Anne Carson
détails All the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées .
~ Anne Carson
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
~ Anne Carson
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. PSALM 141:2
~ Anne Graham Lotz
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us — yes, establish the work of our hands. PSALM 90:17
~ Anne Graham Lotz
The portrait in his, and he's walking out of the house he was born in with blood on his hands and his head held high and his mother's face on his back, his own inalienable albatross, for all the world to see.
~ Anne Scott
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
~ Anne Sexton
I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
~ Nathan Fillion