Hands Quotes

• We're all sort of aware what 'SpongeBob the Musical' could be in the hands of the wrong people.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Hands
  • Sponge Bob
  • Wrong People

• Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Cheer
  • Shots
  • Hook

• Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Weight
  • Volume
  • Maxims

• My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.

  

  Rebecca Gayheart
  • Hands
  • Stylist

• 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
  • Together
  • Expression
  • Testing

• There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Knowledge
  • Hands
  • Discerning

• Get up,” she said. “Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, my lord. You will not have another in this world.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Take
  • Crush

• Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • God
  • Mirrors
  • Persian

• 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
  • Adventure
  • Unexpected
  • Exploration

• We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

  

  David Bottoms
  • Running
  • Risk
  • Break

• I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Ready
  • Shakes
  • Assault

• We often talk about how we are God's "hands and feet," which is true. That being said, we can't fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He's God - which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Thinking
  • Scar
  • Props

• Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.

  

  Jason Powers
  • Freedom
  • Hands
  • Shells

• The future is in good hands.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Hands

• Working with my hands keeps me sane.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • Hands
  • Sane

• How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clus-ters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • World
  • Way
  • Various

• By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.

  

  George Washington
  • Hands
  • Instruments
  • Providence

• For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

  

  William Dalrymple
  • Writing
  • Travel
  • Hands

• Read everything you can get your hands on.

  

  Alina Bronsky
  • Hands
  • Read
  • Get

• I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • School
  • Horse
  • Fields

• You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Women
  • Protect
  • Hide

• Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.

  

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
  • Game
  • Distraction
  • Relaxation

• Two hands are better than four sometimes.

  

  Antonia White
  • Better
  • Hands
  • Four

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