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Quotes About Hands

These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note span might be of use.
~ Ian Mcewan
Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. Is this the part where I faint in fear? Luther bit his lip. He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on.
~ Ilona Andrews
Cajun stomp? You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.
~ Ilona Andrews
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
~ Tim Ferriss
Khloe has the youngest hands. You can tell a woman's age by her hands, and she taught me that. She has way younger hands than I do because she's addicted to wearing sunscreen on them. I'm not consistent with it, but maybe that will be my new year's resolution.
~ Kylie Jenner
I wash my hair maybe once every four or five months. But whenever I touch my hair, I wash my hands. I think since I wash my hands a lot and then touch my hair, maybe I'm washing my hair each time. But also, I sweat a lot, and sweat is like a natural shower built into your body.
~ Andrew W.K.
I was a super active kid, so I've always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don't use my legs, I use more of my hands.
~ Oksana Masters
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
~ Karl Shapiro
Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
~ Larry Wilcox
I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.
~ Dwayne Johnson
We made the mistake of trusting the Chinese and then compounded it by allowing our men to go out to face them with their hands literally tied behind their backs. Galwan was a totally avoidable tragedy.
~ Amarinder Singh
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
~ Cesar Chavez
I like a round nail and not too long. I like to have control of what I do with my hands. I don't want hands longer than my legs.
~ Carrie Preston
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
~ Dwight Gooden
Hands were such extraordinary tools, she mused. Tools, weapons, clumsy and deft, numb and tactile. Among tribal hunters, they could speak, a flurry of gestures eloquent in silence. But they could not taste. Could not hear. Could not weep. For all that, they killed so easily.
~ Steven Erikson
In a journey through the wastes, I found a god kneeling as it pushed its hands into the sand again and again, each time lifting them up to watch the lifeless grains stream down. Dismounting from my weary horse, I walked to stand before this apparition and its dusty hands and watched for a time the cycles of their motion when at last up it looked, eyes beseeching. 'Where,' asked this god, 'are my children?
~ Steven Erikson
Rhizan gathered in writhing clumps at his hands and feet
~ Steven Erikson
Marionettes dance afield beneath masterly hands— I stumble among them crossed by the strings in tangled two-step and curse all these fools in their mad pirouette— I shall not live as they do oh, no, leave me in my circled dance— these unbidden twitchings you see I swear on Hood's Grave is artistry in motion S
~ Steven Erikson
He felt his own fear racing through his body, and it was with trembling hands that he read the Eel's message.
~ Steven Erikson
For example, it is common for people to fail to wash their hands after using the toilet. To illustrate, a British study found that a quarter of rail and bus commuters had fecal bacteria on their hands (Judah et al., 2010).
~ Steven Taylor
Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
~ Stevie Smith
Their lilting laughter sounded like crazy birds and rippling water; rising and falling. My hand had begun to throb with a dull pain, and my vision seemed somehow faded. Colours blended like wet paint before my eyes. I was dizzy, thrown from person to person in the crowd; hands caught me and pushed me away. I struggled to pass through them.
~ Storm Constantine
Uttering a cry of disgust, Verity put her hands against her eyes and turned away. She did not intend to turn into Othman's arms, but he'd positioned himself accurately. He felt strong and reassuring.
~ Storm Constantine