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Quotes About Hand

missed that? "Del, don't—" "Stop arguing." He just grabbed her hand and
~ Nora Roberts
of their previous intimacy, she put a hand over his when he slipped into the
~ Nora Roberts
He paused by Theo's door, knocked with his free hand. Get lost, creep. David looked down at Maddy. I assume he means you. He
~ Nora Roberts
One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest of the children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand. The Deliverance.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.
~ Clarice Lispector
Simon blurted, Can I put the dead hand in my blood? May I put the dead hand in my blood, Adele corrected. Yes, go ahead.
~ Clay Griffith
Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.
~ Clive Barker
You wouldn't happen to have some of that good Aussie beer with you by chance? You like our beer? I keep a case of Castlemaine from Brisbane on hand for special occasions. We don't have any Castlemaine, but I can offer you a bottle of Fosters. I'd be much obliged.
~ Clive Cussler
Fear drove these people, even more than cotton money. The shadow of the black hand that will return what has been given.
~ Colson Whitehead
The nervous talk was understandable; for most, this was their first visit with a doctor. On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death.
~ Colson Whitehead
And war in my hand I carry, and death I bear.
~ Virgil
But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
~ Virginia Woolf
Suddenly, as if the movement of his hand had released it, the load of her accumulated impressions of him tilted up, and down poured in a ponderous avalanche all she felt about him.
~ Virginia Woolf
Murmuring London flowed up to her, and her hand, lying on the sofa back, curled upon some imaginary baton such as her grandfathers might have held, holding which she seemed, drowsy and heavy, to be commanding battalions marching to Canada, and those good fellows walking across London, that territory of theirs, that little bit of carpet, Mayfair.
~ Virginia Woolf
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
Then, after all the excitement, I shall experience a certain satiation of suffering--perhaps on the mountain pass to a kind of happiness which it is too early for me to know (I know only that when I reach it, it will be with pen in hand).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
This is reality, this is pure fact - this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be taken away, can it? (it will, it was). This has all come together here, no matter how the paths twisted, and fooled each other, and got fouled up, they inevitably met here!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ben told me when I was in middle school that girls loved boys who liked to dance. I can't lie. I totally started dancing at the dances to get girls." … "It seems to work for you" He took her hand and kissed it… "Does it? 'Cause I'm working it, beautiful Ella, I'm working it.
~ Lauren Dane
We saw an opening like a bay, and it has at the entrance, on the right hand, a very long spit of sand
~ Laurence Bergreen
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
~ Laurence Leamer
I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.
~ Chaim Potok
She'd once read that nature was a glove on the hand of God, and she knew she'd read Truth.
~ Charlene Ann Baumbich
A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
~ Charles Babbage
Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God," which "favored our beginnings" by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he might make room for us.
~ Charles C. Mann