Quotes and Sayings About Hands

Yes, of course. But ... how?" Kat felt her crew around her: Hamish's arm hung around Simon's shoulders; Gabrielle's delicate hands draped through the arms of Angus and Nick. Kat's own hand found Hale's, then, fingers interlacing, palms pressing together so tightly that Kat knew nothing could come between them. Nothing. She looked at him. No one. "It's easy," Kat said, "when you don't have to do it alone.
-- Ally Carter

#Hands #Together #Arms

But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.
-- Ally Carter

#Girl #Dust #Hands

How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
-- Ally Carter

#Hands #Eyebrows #Pockets

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
-- Ally Condie

#Heart #Hands #Waiting

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
-- Ally Condie

#Thinking #Hands #Would Be

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
-- Ally Sheedy

#Hands #Experience #Taught

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
-- Alma Gluck

#Teacher #Hands #Understanding

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
-- Althea Gibson

#Queens #Hands #Long

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
-- Alton Brown

#Hands #Honey #Bees

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
-- Alyce Cornyn-Selby

#Procrastination #Self #Hands

I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.
-- Amanda McKittrick Ros

#Believe #Hands #Smell

Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?
-- Amanda McKittrick Ros

#Mean #Hands #Decision

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.
-- Amber Heard

#Fashion #Hands #Validation

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Peace #Government #Hands

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands #Pockets #Arms

renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands #Degrees #Littles

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Army #Men #Hands

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands #Tree #Splinters

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands #Action #Propensity

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Character #Wrinkles #Hands

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Fall #Men #Hands

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Sarcastic #Hands #Watches

It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me,
-- Amelia Bloomer

#Hands #History #Saws

Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.
-- Amish Tripathi

#Self #Hands #May

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
-- Amit Ray

#Heart #Hands #Long

The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.
-- Amitava Kumar

#Powerful #Hands #Borders

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
-- Amity Shlaes

#War #Hands #Forever

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Hands #Ideas #Issues

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Hands #Ideas #Tasks

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.
-- Amos Oz

#Loneliness #Self #Hands