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Quotes About Hands

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Wait a minute. Are you limping?" Before he could speak, she said, "You can ride, though, right?" "I assume you're referring to a horse?" She smiled and jammed her hands down on her abundant hips. "Cowboys," she muttered under her breath as she sat back down.
~ B.J. Daniels
It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.
~ B.J. Hoff
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is physical.
~ Michael Ignatieff
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I'm proud of my hands; they look like my grandma's.
~ Serinda Swan
I played guard my whole life, and liked having the ball in my hands.
~ Lonzo Ball
There's a strong body of evidence that shows that the more diligent we are in ensuring that guns are in the appropriate hands, the safer our communities will be.
~ Valerie Jarrett
Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?' 'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.
~ Garth Ennis
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
~ George Eliot
I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
~ Nathan Fillion
I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands - to eat and survive.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red paint, and I get a thrill. My heart starts beating faster. It's almost a sensual thing working with these thick acrylic paints. I almost want to put my hands in.
~ Stephen Hough
Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.
~ Nigel Hamilton
Blocking is part physicality and part physics. You have to be the lower man and get your hands inside to control your opponent's mass. If you have short footwork, tight hands and if you play low, you can hold your own.
~ Travis Kelce
People who work with their hands are laborers. People who work with their hands and their heads are craftsmen. People who work with their hands, their heads, and their hearts are artists
~ Saint Francis of Assisi
Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands.
~ Sara Zarr
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
~ Umberto Eco
I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.
~ Paul Reiser
Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
~ Condoleezza Rice
As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.
~ Margaret Sanger
Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.
~ Michael Langford