Quotes About Hands

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

If the truth is not in the face, then where is it? In the hands! In the hands.

Daniel had learned from his mother that when life is in chaos, there is a certain comfort in order. Things don't get lost, moved, or forgotten. One still needs to eat, to sleep, to have laundry done. The rhythm of housework, busy hands, can hold the world together when it seems to be falling apart.

My hands were…my strange white, slender, glittering hands.

The cruelty of this, the mystery of it, had been overwhelming. In the hands of another, this boy might never be healed.

I like gloves," said Marius. "I'm never without them. Our hands frighten mortals when they take the time to look. And gloves feel warm which we never do.

I think I put my hands to my head as mortals do when so deeply troubled that they instinctively cover the face, reach for the brain as if they could reach through the skull and massage the living organ out of its agony.

How can human hands make this enchantment, how can they pound out of these ivory keys this deluge, this thrashing beauty?

It's how I exist and always have existed since I was taken out of mortal life by malicious and disciplined hands.

How come you pack your clothes in Kleenex?" she asked. Tissue paper, she meant. Willa said, "Oh, that's just something women do when they have too much time on their hands." Cheryl said "Huh?" and Willa laughed.

They talk with their hands, a gesture for every syllable, conductors guiding their conversation like an orchestra.

the expectation of a windfall when the palms of empty hands itched.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Inglis is full of metaphors about hands because they've been so important to our human development. It'll come in handy, we say. This child's a handful, and This is getting out of hand, or You're in good hands.

Well, Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them He held his hands up to them. Look Ma, no mess. Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane.

Relax, you're in good hands. Tabby won't hurt you. (Acheron) She stabbed me! (Valerius) Damn, I told her not to stab any more Hunters. I hate it when she does that. (Acheron) You hate it?! I'm the one with the festering wound. (Valerius) Really? I've never known a Dark-Hunter to have a festering wound before. At least not externally. (Acheron)

For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)

Mind you, with the number of ale barrels that had been broached already, they would probably have bellowed their agreement if Erak had declared that from now on, the sun would rise in the west and everybody must walk on their hands when it rained.

The tall man grinned. "Presumably you'll use your saxe knife, as usual?" "I'll use anything I can get my hands on," the beggar said ruefully, scratching away. The tall man's grin widened. "Well, it'll be nice to have you back to your normal self, Halt," he said.

you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...

all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.