Quotes About Hands

The dead paint a sneering silence on the walls With their white hands.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

'Tis God gives skill,But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.

Lovely country, isn't it. Do you know this part of the world? No. He said, suddenly stretching out his hands, Oh, the sea, the sea—it's so wonderful.

You wash your hands, don't you? Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said. All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.

Sizzling Saturn, we've got a lunatic robot on our hands.

He was proud of his calloused hands with cracked nails and dry red skin. "Working hands, honest hands," he'd say.

Zoning laws making housing more expensive? That's less of a problem with a universal basic income and more of a reason to put money directly into people's hands.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

As far as playing instruments, it just feels good to have it under your hands. Cause sometimes those instruments have minor imperfections. Sometimes because they're so old, they're always out of tune a little bit.

I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

We live in a country where power changes hands cyclically, because everybody in power screws up at some point, or the voters get fickle and just want a change.

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.