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Quotes About Hand

That was like a hand clapped against Rose's chest, not to hurt, but astonish her, to take her breath away .
~ Alice Munro
relinquished her hand to another admirer with a nattering air of reluctance, and as he moved
~ Amanda Scott
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
~ Ambrose Bierce
BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines in the Dies Iræ: Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuæ viæ. Ne me perdas illa die. Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pardon such behavior.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Well, he's scraping up what there is. Reckon we'll need every ready hand when it comes to a battle. Yours too, maybe.' 'Oh, you'll have to hold me back!' Calder slapped the hilt of his sword. 'Can't wait to get started!' 'You ever even drawn the fucking thing?' sneered Tenways, stretching his neck out to spit again. 'Just the once. I had to trim your daughter's hairy cunt before I could get at it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
her own hand a candelabra of gold flame.
~ Joe Hill
I can Leap back, the plant thinks. Angie can no longer see what she is doing. Her eyes are shut, her thoughts have stopped. One small hand rests on Andy's neck; the other fist withdraws until the knife points earthward. Down, down, down, the invader demands. Something sighs sharply, and it might be Andy or it might be the entire forest. Leap, Leap, Leap, the Joshua implores.
~ Joe Hill
I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
~ Friedrich Schiller
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
~ Khalil Gibran
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.
~ E. C. Stedman
Three flowers for you. You should have three." He looks pitiful. He looks powerful. I love him, but I am not sure I like him. I take his hand and lead him inside.
~ E. Lockhart
The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Along my body, waking while I sleep, Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow, The scar of this encounter like a sword
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Am I kin to Sorrow, That so oft Falls the knocker of my door— Neither loud nor soft, But as long accustomed— Under Sorrow's hand?
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
~ Edvard Munch
The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand.
~ Anonymous
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
~ Anonymous
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
~ Anonymous
The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant.
~ Anonymous
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
~ Anonymous
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
~ Anonymous
Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly.
~ Anonymous
Foot in the stirrup and hand on the horn,Best damned cowboy ever was born.Come-a ti yi youpy, youpy yea, youpy yea,Come-a ti yi youpy, youpy yea.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs