Quotes About Hands

AMBIDEXTER  (AMBIDE'XTER)   n.s.[Lat.]1. A man who has equally the use of both his hands. Rodiginus, undertaking to give a reason of ambidexters, and left-handed men, deliverth a third opinion.Brown'sVul. Err.2. A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ludicrous.

gave a sharp cry of realization just as hands, which she had

Beneath it was a photograph of Hank alone, standing shirtless on the deck of a sailboat with his hands on his hips.

You ready to play? Dave asked, bouncing it. I don't know, I said. Are you going to cheat? It's street ball! He said checking it to me. Show me that love. So chessy, i thought. But as i felt it, solid against my hands, i did feel something. I wasn't sure it was love. Maybe what remained of it, though, whatever that might be. All right, I said. Let's play.

And I'm going to pain the solar systems on the backs of her hands, so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.

And then there are days when sleeping is the hardest. The fight of muscle against world becomes so constant, that surrendering to slumber doesn't promise nearly enough relief. These are times when hands feel nothing but empty

Some people read palms to tell your future, I read hands to tell your past. Each scar marks a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle, is a broken bottle, a missed punch, a rusty nail, years in a factory.

comes up from the basement. He has a folder in his hands. "I can barely hear myself think." He looks over at the broken lamp. Then at me. Then at Jonah, standing with his arms

You saw how he put his paws over my face so I couldn't breathe?" she said. "God made him to be a butcher. Why did he become a dentist? His hands are too heavy. The touch is everything to a dentist. If his hands aren't right he shouldn't be let practice. But his wife worked hard to send him through school and make a dentist of him. And I must go to him and be burned because of it.

MEPHISTO. Good fortune's closely linked to merit, A thought that never enters foolish minds; The Philosopher's Stone's there in their hands? The Philosopher's searching everywhere for it.

Esa joya ha rodado por tantas manos que el baño de oro está bastante desgastado.

And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off you." "I suppose you're going to tell me now that only you have the right to touch me." "I see we understand each other.

God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity. But

And if it be deemed a great wickedness to contaminate any thing that is dedicated to God, he surely cannot be endured, who, with impure, or even with unprepared hands, will handle that very thing, which of all things is the most sacred on earth. It is therefore an audacity, closely allied to a sacrilege, rashly to turn Scripture in any way we please, and to indulge our fancies as in sport; which has been done by many in former times

They weren't evil, or vicious, or cruel. They were just bored people with too much time on their hands, and such people will, in the end, get up to mischief.

No hubo advertencia, ni invitación a volverse con las manos en alto, ni opción a rendirse. Esos gestos eran para los buenos en las películas del Oeste, los que llevaban sombreros blancos y al final se quedaban con la chica.

When it comes time, you only have to ask. You call our names, you hear? You call our names. Parker put his head in his hands and wept.

that we may each hear the calling of the bell, live more fully in reality, and nourish one another with wisdom's complete confidence and compassion's tender and soothing hands.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

You may deny, but it is the truth that money is the great game of power of the universe. The angel hands use it for construction and the evil hands for destruction. As it was, it is, and it will remain so.

These waiters were hand-picked for pleurisy, deafness, and a variety of speech defects. They were flushed of skin, gnarled of hand. The dishes that jumped on to the floor from their palsied hands were never referred to again, as it were, but just lay there for the rest of the evening to be ground under foot by passers-by.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

She became transparent skin over bones, her eyes drowning in violet wells, her hands damp spider webs.

As a girl I had liked obscene language, it gave me a sense of masculine freedom. Now I knew that obscenity could raise sparks of madness if it came from a mouth as controlled as mine. So I closed my eyes, I held my hands and squeezed my eyelids.