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Quotes About Hand

Martin Greer Galton had ceased troubling his fellow man in 1964, when a cerebral aneurysm achieved what most of his acquaintances and business associates would have dearly loved to have had a hand in.
~ Lawrence Block
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
~ Marian Diamond
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
~ T. S. Eliot
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
~ Howard Cosell
Almost all gamesters learn to control their faces ... The Hand blabs secrets shamelessly.
~ zweig stefan iii
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Catalan metalworkers quickly fashioned armored cars that looked like giant boxes on wheels by welding steel plates to the frames of trucks and automobiles. Others fashioned homemade bombs and hand grenades, and thousands pitched in to build street barricades of everything from dead horses to massive rolls of newsprint to paving stones passed hand-to-hand along a chain of people. Office
~ Adam Hochschild
I grabbed a bottle of glass cleaner because it comforted me to hold something in my hand that had a trigger, such as it was. I
~ Adam Rex
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
~ Aimee Bender
Alice took back her hand and the god's appendage withdrew from above them, taking Cadaverous with it. Alice came over. She held out her hand, showed Valkyrie the tiny Cadaverous Gant, lying helplessly in one of the creases of her palm. Then Alice looked at Valkyrie, smiled, and clapped.
~ Derek Landy
The tourist archipelagoes of my Southare prisons too, corruptible, and thoughthere is no harder prison than writing verse,what's poetry, if it is worth its salt,but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?
~ Derek Walcott
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
~ Diana Ross
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Sorrow fiddles the ribs and no man should put his hand on anything; there is no direct way. The foetus of symmetry nourishes itself on cross purposes; this is its wonderful unhappiness...
~ Djuna Barnes
As an amputated hand cannot be disowned because it is experiencing a futurity, of which the victim is its forebear, so Robin was an amputation that Nora could not renounce.
~ Djuna Barnes
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
~ Augustus Toplady
Hello!" the Russian says, waving his gloved hand. And I realize something else. I understood him. He said hello in Yiddish. He is Jewish, too. A
~ Jennifer Roy
I'm listening to the radio, bopping along, even driving with just one hand on the wheel. I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.
~ Jenny Han
The phone in my hand buzzed. Logan had just texted I Love You - so cute how he never abbreviated it.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some other loathsome creature over the fire . . . you hang by a slender thread . . . yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.
~ Jerry Borrowman
We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.
~ Jerry Bridges