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Quotes About Hands

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.
~ langford michael
under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out.
~ Cassandra Clare
Betsy waved her hands in the air as if to disperse an unpleasant perfume. "He's such a lot of bother. You're better off—theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Estas rosas que trajeron las manos de unas penitentes llenas de amor, nos ayudaron en nuestra victoria y a completar la sagrada labor de ganar el tesoro que es esta alma.
~ Goethe
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
~ American Proverb
I had a secret... It was on the tip of my tongue, taking up all the room in my brain, cupped in both my empty hands.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
~ Author Unknown
Self and soil! — ha! ha! "The soil is always grateful," says my uncle — "makes you a return in exact proportion to what you bestow on it in the way of manure and labor, — men don't." Says he, "the man that has got one hand in your pocket shakes the other fist in your face; the man that has got both hands in your pocket spits in your face."
~ Charles Reade, White Lies
They say the face tells all there is to know about a life, but I personally believe much can be deduced from the hands. There are lines and scars, bumps and calluses; indeed, the hands are both the sketch and the final work of art.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
the only thing that gets results is action. Not a single ounce of greatness in history ended with thoughts. It happened with hands. With actions.
~ James Altucher
Reading a Baldwin sentence can feel like recreating thought itself. One has to take hands off the rudder and trust the river of thought as it flows.
~ James Baldwin
Canned shtick—Pete gleeful: '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
I know Lytle likes to bang, but I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to take me down. Not for fear of my hands, but strategically he could look to put me down. He's shown he's very dangerous with submissions. His ground game has been very underrated.
~ Matt Serra
Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You have the world at your feet if you have wisdom in your mind.You have the world in your hands if you have joy in your heart.You have the world in your bosom if you have love in your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger has great strength, but no brains.Greed has many hands, but no heart.Fear has many titles, but no honor.Hate has many forms, but no soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Focus on what you like and forget about what you don't like, before it drains all your energy.Full equipment on the hands of an empty mind is useless, I prefer a full mind with empty hands.
~ Cyc Jouzy
I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.
~ Joan Collins
I'm so excited for readers to get their hands on 'The Spring Girls.'
~ Anna Todd
Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.
~ Emilio Estevez
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
~ Francis Bacon
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
~ Abigail Adams
A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are creatures with eight hands.
~ Jayne Mansfield