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Quotes About Hands

His hands were freezing, but he couldn't milk with gloves. Sorry about the cold hands, old girl, he apologized to the cow before he started.
~ Carolyn Brown
They sound like dinosaurs,' I said. 'They sound like diseases,' he said, shoving his hands in his pockets. ' Excuse me, Doctor, I have a touch of the prunus avium.' 'What's that?' I asked. He checked the sign. 'The cherry tree, apparently. Imagine having a name like that.
~ Cecelia Ahern
How do I convince him that the way we study Talmud is not a threat?' 'But it is a threat, Reuven. I just told you it is a threat. In the hands of those who do not love the tradition it is a dangerous weapon.' 'Everything is dangerous in the wrong hands. How do I convince him that we're not a threat?
~ Chaim Potok
We must make the masses understand that we have a responsibility to care for our animals and that when things get messed up, it's usually because human hands have caused it.
~ Tony Cardenas
In general the cows were milked as they presented themselves, without fancy or choice. But certain cows will show a fondness for a particular pair of hands, sometimes carrying this predilection so far as to refuse to stand at all except to their favourite, the pail of a stranger being unceremoniously kicked over.
~ Thomas Hardy
Guilt, in proper invisible hands, is a most powerful weapon.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom,— and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.
~ Thomas Pynchon
History is not woven by innocent hands.
~ Thomas Pynchon
the departing crowd. She giggled and jerked her thumb to where her mother and the stranger stood. 'Look at that! They're holdin' hands! Tell you what, May, we'll have a bet. I bet you ten bob our mam gets herself a feller before we go to university.' 'You're on, April
~ Katie Flynn
Get your filthy hands off the puzzle, you little brats!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
He told me that because he was left-handed, he and John could play the guitars like mirrors opposite each other, watching each other's hands.
~ Keith Richards
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I stared at Kate in disbelief. "I know, I know," she said, walking toward me, hands raised as if to calm a dangerous beast. "She's not coming," I said. "She's coming." "She can't." "She's coming.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
~ Kenneth Paul Kramer
JOE HATED DENVER TRAFFIC and he kept both of his hands on the wheel and his pickup in the far right lane as cars zipped around him. It was as if every driver on the five-lane freeway had just downed three shots of vodka and had been handed the keys to Daddy's sports car.
~ C.J. Box
Você tem um cigarro? -Estou tentando parar de fumar. -Eu também. Mas queria uma coisa nas mãos agora. -Você tem uma coisa nas mãos agora. -Eu? -Eu.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night.
~ Cameron Dokey
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
~ Gavin DeGraw
J'applaudis jusqu'à en avoir mal aux mains. J'applaudis comme si cela pouvait prolonger la soirée et la sensation que j'éprouve. Et parce que je sais qu'au moment où je vais arrêter, il arrivera la même chose qu'à la fin d'un beau film, quand le générique me renvoie à la réalité qui m'attend et me laisse le cœur serré.
~ Gayle Forman
Why wouldn't I dance?" Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch? As for what he enjoyed having for dinner - that couldn't be discussed in polite company. "Because you think it's dumb?" The words emerged as a question rather than the statement I'd meant them to be. "Something that allows a guy to put his hands all over a girl isn't dumb. It's genius
~ Gena Showalter
Heaven built on earth by human hands is not the same as eternal life. Again, Christianity always has to be more than a cultural religion.
~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.
~ Gennifer Choldenko
I'm not the hero of this story. I'm a man who's been corrupted by his own unbearable pain. I'm a man who has too much blood on his hands to be called good.
~ Geoff Johns