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Quotes About Hand

She takes my hand like a woman in a dream. She is in a dream, and so am I. Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief . . . but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
~ Stephen King
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn
~ William Shakespeare
I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.
~ Diana Lynn
I am sentimental,' she said. 'I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.
~ Robert Earl Keen
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
~ James Joyce
Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
~ Dorothy Parker
I will trust you—I will extend my hand to you—despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me. So,
~ Jordan B. Peterson
This hypothetical person I have never met who didn't want to threaten a tarantula should stop moving their hand around," Yuri said urgently. "But…it's…touching…meeeeee.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
on the Queen's finger was that ring of gold with emeralds set therein, which Mark had given her on her bridal day; but her hand was so wasted that the ring hardly held.
~ Joseph Bédier
Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.
~ Joseph Joubert
Actors, who relate their woes in many clever sentences and with much waving of hands and rolling of eyes—they should be made to ride in the cars for passengers with heavy loads, to learn that a slightly bent hand can hold in it the misery of all time, and that the quiver of an eyelid can be more moving than a whole evening full of crocodile tears.
~ Joseph Roth
Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.
~ Ernest Cline
E' cominciato dalla mano, che si è innamorata della tua.
~ Erri De Luca
Je m'entends dire : "Il y a en moi ce qui se trouve chez beaucoup d'hommes dans le monde, amours, coups de feu, des phrases pleines d'épines, aucune envie d'en parler. Nous sommes ordinaires nous autres hommes. Ce qui est spécial, c'est vivre, regarder le soir le creux de sa main et savoir que le lendemain sera nouveau, que le tailleur de la nuit coud la peau, raccommode les cals, reprise les accrocs et dégonfle la fatigue." (p. 44)
~ Erri De Luca
Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!
~ Eugene O'Neill
Maintenance is the tax I pay on this life, I think. And that is why I want to do it by hand, with heavy shears.
~ Eula Biss
What is wisdom? What gift of the godsis held in glory like this:to hold your hand victoriousover the heads of those you hate?Glory is precious forever.
~ Euripides
Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended.
~ Ehud Olmert
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it. "What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.
~ Bentley Little
The soul's hand has an eye. *Carved on a rain-worn stone.* Welling-in-the-Mountains.
~ Betsy James
Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.
~ bhartrhari ii