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Quotes About Hand

He had an anxious smile on his face. And he was clutching a letter in his hand.
~ Unknown
Modernity's like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
~ Unknown
Begu laughed, too, that shimmery, silvery laugh Hild would always associate with light along with a wet beach and the smell of the sea and took her hand.
~ Nicola Griffith
She did not mention her dream of the ammonite, snaking heavy and solid into the bones of her hand.
~ Nicola Griffith
What mattered was the truth, rising like birdsong, like the scent of flowers opening to the sun, of her wyrd. Cian's hand beneath hers. It always had been so. It had always been meant to be so. Fate goes over as it must.
~ Nicola Griffith
Every time she swallowed, she gleamed. Every time she lifted a hand, she glittered. Every time she breathed, she glinted. She was breathing fast; her legs trembled; the glitter and gleam and glint became an endless shimmer.
~ Nicola Griffith
Nothing," she'd say, and go back to some busywork. But I knew what she was watching for. Colleen headed toward home, a small child's hand in hers. Love and reason have never been well acquainted.
~ Unknown
Two dreams – to make the best possible products for our customers and to create the best quality of work life for our employees.  They must go hand and hand!
~ Unknown
I thought I was hurt in my pride only, forgetting that, when you plunge your hand in freezing water, you feel a bangle of ice round your wrist before the whole hand goes numb.
~ Norman MacCaig
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
~ Oswald Chambers
We're running with the shadows of the night So baby take my hand, you'll be all right Surrender all your dreams to me tonight They'll come true in the end
~ Pat Benatar
Just a minute," I said. I bent over and picked it up in my right hand . . . When I woke up, Shiara was dripping water on my face.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
doing the smoker's comedy act: he hunted automatically for an ashtray, didn't find one, tipped his ashes into the palm of his hand,...
~ Patricia Nell Warren
was paler. Her hand closed on the letter it
~ Patricia Wentworth
After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised. "Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I am at your service, my lady," I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There were rings unseen on his second hand. One was blood in a flowing band. One of air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Fate has a hand but is not the hand.
~ Patti Smith
out of a shardstrewn madness I stand up and look upon my hand, how it draws the one and only circle
~ Paul Celan
All orbits are free. Several earths I lob to you while going blind— the two white ones you keep, one in each hand.
~ Paul Celan
Schneid die Gebetshand aud der Luft mit der Augen- schere kapp ihre Finger mit deinem Kuß: Gefaltetes geht jetzt atemberaubend vor sich. // Cut the payer-hand from the air with the eye- shears, lop its fingers off with your kiss: Now a folding takes place that takes your breath away -Last Poems, page 51
~ Paul Celan
My name is John Calley, the man said. He poured coins back into the can out of his large, callused hand. He said, We should not have taken your money this morning on the road. I am regretting it.
~ Paulette Jiles
Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He was not really rested but well enough. They went on.
~ Paulette Jiles
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF Friend you stand on sacred ground THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
~ Paulette Jiles