logo

Quotes About Hands

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
~ Frank Herbert
tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind is
~ Frank Stanford
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting.
~ Franz Kafka
Always asking the doctor for the impossible. They've lost their old faith; the priest sits home and picks his vestments to pieces, one after another; but the doctor is supposed to accomplish everything with his gentle, surgical hands.
~ Franz Kafka
I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
~ Billy Graham
I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
~ Jean Pigozzi
El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
~ Tommy Caldwell
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
~ Mandy Patinkin
If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
I'm not a sportswriter. I don't get to vote. I don't get the ballot in the mail, so it's out of my hands either way. I can say that in the history of the Hall of Fame, there are no suspicions about guys who are in the Hall of Fame.
~ Ryne Sandberg
The one thing I do like is lotion and moisture on my hands and face. I love to have my face moisturized. I like different ones. I like Natura Bisse.
~ Lil' Kim
Ah. Methylsulphonymethane. People around here use it for damn near everything. It's famous for cell repair. I guess Doc's right—you're in good hands.
~ Robyn Carr
Irenaeus, writing even earlier, puts it more beautifully still: "By the wood of the Cross the work of the Word of God was made manifest to all: his hands are stretched out to gather all men together. Two hands out-stretched, for there are two peoples scattered over the whole earth. One sole head in the midst, for there is but one God over all, among all, and in all." This is
~ Rod Bennett
into their hands and enslaved the children and women.
~ Roderick Beaton
In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.
~ Roger Zelazny
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth. I give her my troth, for our love is whole I sing her beauty in my soul
~ Roman Payne
This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is a worker, like us. He made the world — He didn't hire poor Indios to build it for him! God has worker's hands. Just remember — angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
She was pretty, fresh, she came from the hands of nature full of that sorcery, uncertain and eternal, that an individual passes to another individual for the secret ends of creation.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis
~ Machado de Assis
have to stay in a hotel once you book in. I don't think you can leave at teatime and say that's enough. Maybe they didn't do it at all, maybe they only held hands and necked.
~ Maeve Binchy
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
~ Sophocles
People often share anecdotes with me. I know you will appreciate this, they say. Indeed, I can be counted on to validate the remarkableness of their tales, bringing my hands to my cheeks and exclaiming in all the right places.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
One can always find hands for a work of destruction.
~ Andre Gide
Somewhere far off a cannon sounded. Half a minute later there was another blast, which seemed to come from the opposite direction. Fools can't get to sleep, Sergeyich said to himself. Probably just warming their hands.
~ Andrey Kurkov
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands
~ Ani DiFranco