Hands Quotes
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Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.
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The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.
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I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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God help us we're in the hands of engineers.
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When you stop grabbing for things, sometimes the world just hands them to you, instead. Focusing on others is true success.
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Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
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She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
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Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!
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I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.
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Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.
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I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
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It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them special interest groups everything they want. He'll lick every hand.
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
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The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
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I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.
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On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and
