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Quotes About Hands

Get your hands off. You weren't a member of our regiment. You want some beer, you hold your own reunion. The King's Own Glasshouse Deserters weren't they?
~ Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
the gift of heaven is in the hands of every man. But
~ Joseph Conrad
By the highway, the Hudson—the library books straining at their delibags, corners poking. Straining my arms, throttling my hands, the numb rewards of literacy.
~ Joshua Cohen
If you're reading this on a screen, fuck off. I'll only talk if I'm gripped with both hands.
~ Joshua Cohen
I meant," Jenny said, her eyes filled with ire, plunking her hands on her slim hips, "if I were your daughter, and your sworn enemy kidnapped me, how would you want me to behave?
~ Judith McNaught
I need love more than hope or money, wisdom or a drink Because slow negative death withers the world — and only yes can turn the tide Because love has your face and body Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and your hands are tender and your mouth is sweet — and God has made no other eyes like yours.
~ Walter Benton
Then we say, "Lord God, let me not be distressed." Moron, don't you have hands? Didn't God make them for you? So are you going to sit down and pray that your nose will stop running?
~ Ward Farnsworth
Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service;
~ James Clerk Maxwell
Who is God except our Lord? Who is a rock except our God? The God who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless. He makes me as sure footed as a deer so that I can stand on the mountain tops. He trains my hands for battle so that I can bend a bow of bronze. You have given me the shield of your salvation. Your help has made me great. I pursued my enemies and overcame them. I did not turn back until they were destroyed.
~ James Dale
The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they're the teeth of the demon as he slides down the flue.
~ James Ellroy
There is no effective pattern of entitlement in a society short of the free agreement of all opponents that the titles to property are in the hands of the actual winners.
~ James P Carse
PSALM 128:1-4 Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
~ James Riddle
Blessed are the horny hands of toil!
~ James Russell Lowell
His hands, folded on the desk before him, were gnarled with veins and had a bluish, pearly sheen around the knuckles. I stared at them.
~ Donna Tartt
they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks-sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.
~ Donna Tartt
He got everyone out of the room, keeping Danny. Danny stood, his hands dangling unhelpfully. 'Well?' he said. 'Adam is your man, you know, for sensitive nursing.' D'Harcourt, his hands pressing through Lymond's hair, said, 'But just think how he is going to enjoy finding you watching him when he wakes up.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
If you wish to carry this paper from France and deliver it into Lord Culter's hands,' he said, 'I know of no power which would stop you, unless an earthly one.' 'And that,' said Daniel Hislop, 'is the first totally accurate prediction I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Give me that.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I regret Richard isn't with you. No matter. God hath a thousand hand?s to chastise and I have two—how can Richard escape us both?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
the promise implicit in the veiled eyes, the long, flexible mouth, the curiously vital hands.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
You are, without doubt, holding in your hands one of the best-introduced books in the English language. We hope you enjoy the Introduction to the New Edition that follows this Introduction to it and continue to read on even into the book itself.
~ Douglas Adams
Outside, he said to her: 'I think the Universe is in pretty good hands, yeah?' 'Very good,' said Trillian. They walked off into the rain.
~ Douglas Adams
That's right!" agreed Majikthise. "You'll have a national Philosophers' strike on your hands!" The
~ Douglas Adams
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
~ African Proverb
Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.
~ Agatha Christie