Hands Quotes - page 3

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. (H. L. Mencken)
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings. View quote
Denis Diderot
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. View quote
André Gide
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. View quote
Michelangelo
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. View quote
Alfred Austin
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. (Antonio Porchia)
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. View quote
Matthew Henry
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. View quote
Sophocles
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. View quote
Alfred Brendel
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. View quote
Joseph Stalin
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. View quote
Taisen Deshimaru
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. View quote
Manuel Puig
And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with. (Rube Goldberg)
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together. View quote
Tadao Ando
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. View quote
Anthony Doerr
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. View quote
Giorgio Vasari