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Quotes About Hands

Navarro lifted a deprecating shoulder and one eyebrow. His eyes had never left the big redhead's carefully moving hands. The Mexican wore buckskin breeches, hand-tooled boots, and one ivory
~ Louis L'Amour
snowed in and much of the range would be covered too deep. The outlaws were good hands up to a point, but they had no interest in the cattle, and they did not relish the idea of cutting
~ Louis L'Amour
History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment.
~ Louis L'Amour
took a moment for the venom to sink in. Suddenly, Mr. Sir screamed and clutched his face with both hands. He let himself fall over, rolling off the hearth and onto the rug.
~ Louis Sachar
Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands, cried the Professor, quite overcome. Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, Not empty now, and, stooping down, kissed her Friedrich under the umbrella.
~ Louisa May Alcott
People who hire all these things done for them never know what they lose, for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them
~ Louisa May Alcott
for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them
~ Louisa May Alcott
People who hire all these things done for them, never know what they lose; for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this, that everything in her small nest, from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on her parlor table was eloquent of home love and tender forethought.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
~ Louise Erdrich
Now he embarked on a buying spree that would eventually produce the world's largest art collection in private hands.
~ Ron Chernow
Y ella se despidió de todos metida en su cama eterna-cama mundo, en su velero del dolor, con la sonrisa desencajada y las manos resplandecientes de sortijas.
~ Rosa Montero
No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
~ Rudyard Kipling
That's why his hands were trembling as he lighted another cigarette. He was about to bump up against and break through an invisible membrane between the perfectly controlled world locked inside his head and the endlessly overflowing unpredictable, dangerous world outside.
~ Russell Banks
Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
~ Lily Tomlin
hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He was not tall, but the fingers that held his hat against his overcoat were exceptionally long and thin. She saw how they moved one at a time against the dark brown felt, pressing themselves against the fabric almost imperceptibly, like a pulse under the skin. The way a child's fingers might move in sleep.
~ Alice McDermott
The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.
~ Tokujiro Namikoshi
...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon
~ Christopher Paolini
All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find.
~ Dylan Thomas
A hand rules heaven as a hand rules pity; hands have no tears to flow.
~ Dylan Thomas
Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.
~ E.M. Forster
Let Squalor be turned into Tragedy, whose eyes are the stars, and whose hands hold the sunset and the dawn.
~ E.M. Forster
Squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, "arararar", and occasionally, they stop and go, oh, uh, ah, as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm, no I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit.
~ Eddie Izzard