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Quotes About Hand

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
~ John Leonard
As you progress high school, college into the league, you can tell the difference between quarterbacks with their timing and the way the ball comes out of their hand.
~ Kenny Stills
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
~ Hanna Rosin
Addie zipped open her computer case, found a USB cord, and tossed it through the back window so it landed on the seat next to him. "What's this for?" Kris asked, holding the cord. Darn. He found it too soon. "Thank you," she said. "I must have dropped it." "You just threw it in.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
She was what we used to call a suicide blond — dyed by her own hand.
~ Saul Bellow
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde-- dyed by her own hand.
~ Saul Bellow
peeked at his cards and said, 'Ahhhh-ha,' with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet.
~ Scott Lynch
Give me the knife!" Simon held out his hand. Lincoln glanced over as he struggled with Albert. "Could you take it out of your hand first?" he said. Simon gritted his teeth and pulled the knife out.
~ Scott Mebus
This is why I also feel profound hope today, for you took the ultimate crushing of the cross that we might know your tear-wiping hand and a peace you alone can bring.
~ Scotty Smith
Like everyone on the set has to take [herpes medication] Valtrex. We hand it out like M&Ms. Hey kids, it's time for Valtrex!' It's like a herpes nest. They're all in there mixing it up.
~ SallyAnn Salsano
It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.
~ Sylvester Stallone
It is a public journal; I will explain what that is, another time. It is not cloth, it is made of paper; some time I will explain what paper is.  The lines on it are reading matter; and not written by hand, but printed; by and by I will explain what printing is. A thousand of these sheets have been made, all exactly like this, in every minute detail — they can't be told apart.
~ Mark Twain
after which placed their hand on their head, and appeared up closer to the sky, with the tears jogging down, and then busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and supply the following female a display.  I by no means see anything so disgusting.
~ Mark Twain
Sono io la corrente. E corrente alternata. Controcorrente e scatenata. Ma ammiro anche Sam, e mi sono lanciata, anche se è timido si alza appena esco dalle placide onde per prendergli la mano e anche lui, in questo pantano, sotto il cielo rosso tiziano.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn't hesitate to wring him out. It smiled and squeezed and let him live. What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.
~ mark zusak
Her nerves licked her palms.
~ Markus Zusak
Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white. She only realised her mother had come back for her when she felt the boniness of a hand on her shoulder. She was being dragged away. A warm scream filled her throat.
~ Markus Zusak
Many jocular comments followed, as did another onslaught of Heil Hitlering. You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a hand or wrist with all of that. You'd only need to be facing the wrong way at the wrong time, or stand marginally too close to another person.
~ Markus Zusak
Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.
~ Markus Zusak
To his horror, Melrose saw that these were name tags she was now pinning to the Attaboys' clothing and that the other guests were wearing them. To his double horror, he saw her hand closing on his lapel. He shoved it away. Her smile-mask cracked. "But everyone's wearing them just to make it easier." "I'd much rather make it harder." He walked off toward the drinks.
~ Martha Grimes
My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point being driven home by the slapping of a brawny hand upon the speaker's knee. When our visitor was silent Holmes stretched out his hand and took down letter "S" of his commonplace book. For once he dug in vain into that mine of varied information.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
~ Arundhati Roy
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
~ Audre Lorde
The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.
~ Ayn Rand