Hands Quotes
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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 -
Swiftly gliding in, blushing like a girl, a tall thin stripling held out both his hands; and although I could hardly believe as I looked at his flushed feminine, and artless face that it could be the Poet, I returned his warm pressure. After the ordinary greetings and courtesies he sat down and listened. I was silent from astonishment: was it possible that this mild-mannered beardless boy could be the veritable monster of the world?–ex-communicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family,and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school? I could not believe it; it must be a hoax.
Edward John Trelawny
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Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.
K. P. Yohannan -
I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.
Trish Stratus -
The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
Bill Bailey -
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee -
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
William Cowper -
A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.
Chic Murray
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Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.
George Washington -
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.
Sonya Hartnett -
We fell behind 2-0 to those guys and played right into their hands.
Chris Pronger -
Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.
Wolfgang Weingart -
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Simon Wiesenthal -
Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.
Anne Holm
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I think my greatest strengths are my hands. I am also good at getting separation from the defender and finding ways to get open. I am also a good route runner.
Eric Thomas -
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
Michael Caine -
If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.
Alan AtKisson -
...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.
Sarah Addison Allen -
All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back.
Catherynne M. Valente
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He handles it well and, I'll tell you, he has good hands. He catches the ball. He'll definitely be more a part of our passing offense.
Bob Stoops -
The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
Shinichi Suzuki -
All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
William Shakespeare -
Let's hold hands and brave this beautiful, crazy life together with a sweet smile and a calm breath.
Colleen Saidman