Hands Quotes
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A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
George Seldes
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What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
Homer
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Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. "Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't-" Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.
Katie Pavlich
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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
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The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
Elvis Costello
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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
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I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.
Rutger Hauer
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The future is in good hands.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
William Osler
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
George Eliot
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas Sowell
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The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
Treat Williams
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There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.
William Shakespeare
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Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
Michael O'Donoghue
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About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
Tom Heinsohn
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.
Nina Cassian
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I think I have great hands out of the backfield.
Ezekiel Elliott
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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
William Feather
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I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.
Ricky Jay
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I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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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
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To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.
Gerard Manley Hopkins