Hands Quotes

• We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Hands
  • Interaction
  • Foreheads

• The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Central

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Cowardice

• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hands

• Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Day
  • Better
  • Nurse

• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Fall
  • Arrogance
  • Rome

• It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Commencement
  • Victors

• Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Me
  • Hands
  • Blood

• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Power
  • Hands
  • Few

• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

  

  Gary Wright
  • God
  • Rest
  • Hands

• Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Toys

• I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Government
  • Hands

• An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Men
  • War
  • Respect

• Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Jump

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • City
  • Hands

• Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Bones

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • End
  • Hands
  • Him

• Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Feels
  • Enough
  • Hours

• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hand
  • Dark
  • Bridge

• As if the world and they were hand and glove.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Hands
  • Gloves

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