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Quotes About Handshake

The woman offered her hand, and I shook it. She had a confident grip. She didn't tell me her name, though, and I couldn't tell if she simply forgot or she didn't want me to know.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come, Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission. Boom! Jake Wexler replied.
~ Ellen Raskin
Hello, Jake, I'm so glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission.
~ Ellen Raskin
I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.
~ Donald Trump
You were Air Force?" "Does it show?" he asked, coming out of his chair and introducing himself with a handshake. Maybe it did show, she thought, as she looked more closely. Maybe it helped explain the hard handshake and the riveting grip of those eyes. She wanted to like him right away, which only fueled her suspicion of him. "Aircraft carriers, land-based, or what?" she asked.
~ Ridley Pearson
The new guy smiled and put out a hand the size of a king crab. "Brad Carter. You're Mr. Cole?" "Yes, sir. Elvis Cole." He clutched my hand like a king crab, too. "Thanks
~ Robert Crais
There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done." "Sounds easy enough." "Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?" "Maybe later," said Gracious. "How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.
~ Derek Landy
If you feel like you have to have them for some reason, tell me and we'll take them out together. Promise?" "If you promise not to tell the whole school about this." "I won't tell them anything. Deal?" "Deal." "I think we should seal it." I gave a jittery laugh. "With a handshake?" "I was thinking more like a kiss.
~ Jennifer Archer
Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.
~ George Vecsey
It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
~ Buddy Rice
I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.
~ Alan Sugar
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.
~ Robert Jordan
Ethics and Science need to shake hands.
~ Richard Clarke Cabot
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.
~ Zig Ziglar
Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I think it is always appropriate to end a conversation about sperm with a sweaty handshake.
~ Andrew Smith
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
~ Ani DiFranco
The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
~ Marc Almond
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Television is a business and, financially speaking, they have decisions and considerations that go far beyond the creative merit of the show. But at the same time, you'd like to believe in a man's word. When he shakes your hand and says he's going to stay with it, and doesn't, it's really frustrating in a way.
~ Adrian Pasdar
black ballistic vest, blue jeans, and a Seattle Mariners baseball cap. "Detective Crosswhite?" Tracy shook the woman's hand and noticed that it felt small and soft. "Just Tracy. You're Officer Pryor." "Katie. I really appreciate this. I'm sorry to take up
~ Robert Dugoni
After a brief hesitation, the doctor accepted Strike's proffered hand, and as the two men shook, Robin wondered how aware men were of the power dynamics that played out between them, while women stood watching.
~ Robert Galbraith
He always wore large jeweled rings on his right hand; sometimes, grasping a welcoming hand so hard that the rings bit and the owner winced, the hand shaker said merrily, "Ha ha! The mailed fist! What!
~ Robert K. Massie
The officers shook hands, and the sniper gave a millimetric nod, which Reacher returned, equally briefly, which for two alleged snipers was effusive, and for a dogface and a jarhead meeting for the first time was practically like rolling around on the floor in an ecstatic bear hug.
~ Lee Child