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Quotes About Hands

Keda,' she said to herself,' Keda, this is tragedy.' But as her words hung emptily in the morning air, she clenched her hands for she could feel no anguish and the bright bird that had filled her breast was still singing... was still singing.
~ Mervyn Peake
Their hands were also huge – two massive leathery mitts that looked like hairy wicket keeper's gloves.
~ Bear Grylls
Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one's hands free of another man's throat, free of one's own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care.
~ Ben Marcus
TREVES: Plato believed this was all a world of illusion and that artists made illusions of illusions of heaven. MERRICK: You mean we are all just copies? Of originals? TREVES: That's it. MERRICK: Who made the copies? TREVES: God. The Demi-urge. MERRICK (goes back to work): He should have used both hands shouldn't he?
~ Bernard Pomerance
He shrugged and dusted dustless hands, one against the other. He
~ Beryl Markham
Why are you troubled?" He asked them. "And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at My hands and My feet." Luke 24:38–39
~ Beth Moore
A man will be satisfied with good by the words of his mouth, and the work of a man's hands will reward him. Proverbs 12:14
~ Beth Moore
To say "It's no use" is to say the Potter is not qualified to do what He does best. Take your chances on God. Put your life in His hands. Newness doesn't come from faith in yourself. It comes from faith in Him.
~ Beth Moore
I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
~ Sam Worthington
When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.
~ Sebastian Vettel
I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.
~ Susan Juby
The sky spoke to him. It was a language he had never heard before. He was not even certain there were words. Perhaps it only spoke to him in the black writing the birds made. He was small and unprotected and there was no escape. He was caught between earth and sky as if cupped between two hands. They could crush him if they chose.
~ Susanna Clarke
In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
~ Joseph Smith Jr.
If there is anything that is likely to put me to sleep," he said, "it would be an English history book. So you can hold hands with a clear conscience." "I'm going with Nurse Burrows." "You can still hold hands." "I've no patience with you," she said patiently and faded backwards into the gloom.
~ Josephine Tey
Miriam wrung her hands, and said, "Your child dreads to become alive and real because he fears that in doing so, the risk of annihilation is immediately potentiated.
~ Joy Williams
Los franceses empezaron a caminar con las manos en la boca, o amarrándose una improvisada máscara de tela fina sobre boca y nariz como forajidos de leyenda;
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
if Moses had seen the way my friend's face blushes when he's drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man
~ Judah Alharizi
Not the richest, the best. Promise?" When he nodded, she went on. "And anyone who's delivering a baby has to wash his or her hands first. And you have to build Thornwyck Castle and leave records behind that show that you designed it. I want history to know.
~ Jude Deveraux
She hands him his coffee; crosses to the doorway; motes of dust flutter nervously in her wake.
~ Judith Guest
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.
~ Judith Viorst
Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
~ Judith Viorst
I don't have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.
~ Jule McBride
Las manos reflejaban el alma de las mujeres y su condición social.
~ Julia Navarro
I believe I told you I am utterly serious. I never lie." "Now that is a clanker if ever I heard one." she retorted. "Well, then, I never lie about anything important." Her hands found their way to her hips and she let out a loud, "Harumph.
~ Julia Quinn