Hands Quotes
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
John Tillotson
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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"
Benjamin Zander
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Guys are OK... shake their hand... Women are special. You can hug 'em.
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott
AC/DC
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Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.
Joseph Heller
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
Emily Dickinson
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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
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The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.
Stevie Smith
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
Dante Alighieri
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
B. C. Forbes
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A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
William McFee
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Friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.
G.A. Henty
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I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.
Bernardino Ramazzini
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Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.
Joshua Roman
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On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
M. F. K. Fisher
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
Wole Soyinka
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He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly now, as if testing the word. And she replied, Dashton. Then their hands parted, but only so they might come closer, like two trees twining together to stand as one in a forest of green.
Galen Beckett
