Hands Quotes

• When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Hands
  • Birds
  • Clay

• We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Women
  • My Heart
  • God Wants

• The hand is where the mind meets the world.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • World
  • Mind
  • Science

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Dark
  • Hands

• What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

  

  Paul Newman
  • People
  • Hands
  • Fortunate

• I think Chris Evans has got Captain America locked up. The role is in good hands.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Hands
  • Roles

• The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

  

  William B. Ogden
  • Simple
  • Conscience
  • Ingredients

• I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Hands
  • I Love
  • Watch

• I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Way
  • Used
  • Plans

• 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
  • Sorry
  • Faces
  • Demon

• I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Effort
  • Knows
  • Hands

• The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

  

  Helen Keller
  • Opportunity
  • Littles
  • Abuse

• The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Earth
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Hands
  • First
  • Ironic

• The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Firsts
  • Dirty
  • Capitalism

• This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands.

  

  Brenton Brown
  • Joy
  • Human
  • Transcends

• There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Newspapers

• Don't be afraid of us, we are all the same. You can't get AIDS if you touch, hug, kiss, hold hands with someone who is infected.

  

  Nkosi Johnson
  • Hands
  • Kiss
  • Aids

• And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • City
  • Possibilities
  • Options

• I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Hands
  • Politician
  • Prepared

• You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both with Ellen Page loved the script and the book Into the Forest, which I read after I read the script, and highlighted it and dog-eared it to craziness.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Script
  • Talented
  • Craziness

• My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.

  

  Tracy Spiridakos
  • Stories
  • Hands
  • Boyfriend

• I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Heaven

• Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Thinking
  • Hands

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