Hands Quotes
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Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
Richard Scott Bakker -
Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.
Eliza Leslie
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You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
Dolly Parton -
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Seneca the Younger -
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
Eddy Merckx -
When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
Arthur Mattuck -
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost -
It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.
Chris Copeland
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It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
C. S. Lewis -
I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.
Brad Alan Lewis -
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle -
The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!
George Pope Morris -
If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
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Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?
Richard Aldington -
I read every biography of Jackie Kennedy I could get my hands on.
Natalie Portman -
Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’ at Defense Against the Dark Arts.” He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. “You’re actually disappointed, aren’t you?
Joanne Rowling -
If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!
Alan Rufus -
There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.
William Shakespeare -
I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.
Cecil Rhodes
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All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
William Gurnall -
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
George Eliot -
While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.
William Golding -
I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.
Robin Trower Procol Harum