Top Hands Quotes Collection

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Image of Caroline Stevermer
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
- Caroline Stevermer
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Image of Tina St. John
Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.
- Tina St. John
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Image of Harold B. Lee
There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
- Harold B. Lee
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Image of Paolo Bacigalupi
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.
- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Image of Julie Walters
I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.
- Julie Walters
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Image of Lorenzo Snow
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land
- Lorenzo Snow
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Image of Jim Cymbala
God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you don’t know where to turn, then turn to me. When you’re ready to throw up your hands - throw them up to me. Put your voice behind them too, and I’ll come and help you.
- Jim Cymbala
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Image of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.
- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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Image of Nikolas Schreck
If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.
- Nikolas Schreck
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Image of Nikolas Schreck
Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.
- Nikolas Schreck
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Image of Oscar de la Renta
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
- Oscar de la Renta
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Image of Robert Harling
I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.
- Robert Harling
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Image of Bruce Nauman
I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.
- Bruce Nauman
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Image of Patrick Carman
He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is.
- Patrick Carman
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Image of Alexander Gordon Smith
Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
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Image of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Image of Deanna Raybourn
They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.
- Deanna Raybourn
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Image of Ivan Turgenev
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
- Ivan Turgenev
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Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Image of Herman E. Daly
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
- Herman E. Daly
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Image of Bobby Seale
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
- Bobby Seale
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Image of William Powell
I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.
- William Powell
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Image of William Powell
There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.
- William Powell
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Image of Peter Steele
People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.
- Peter Steele
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Image of James Rollins
Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.
- James Rollins
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Image of James Rollins
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.
- James Rollins
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Image of Patrick O'Brian
Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.' But suppose you had to choose?' Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.' There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!
- Patrick O'Brian
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Image of Elizabeth Berg
The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
- Elizabeth Berg
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Image of Christopher Barzak
Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.
- Christopher Barzak
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Image of Shannon Hale
Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.
- Shannon Hale
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Image of Hilari Bell
I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.
- Hilari Bell
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Image of Wilhelm Wundt
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.
- Wilhelm Wundt
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Image of Tom Bissell
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
- Tom Bissell
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Image of Sebastian Horsley
I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.
- Sebastian Horsley
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Image of Mother Teresa
Helping hands are better than Praying Lips
- Mother Teresa
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Image of Helen Steiner Rice
In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.
- Helen Steiner Rice
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Image of Eric Ludy
The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.
- Eric Ludy
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Image of Lewis Hyde
Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand.
- Lewis Hyde
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Image of Keith Urban
Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!
- Keith Urban
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Image of Michael Ian Black
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
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Image of Cinda Williams Chima
Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.
- Cinda Williams Chima
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Image of Sivananda
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
- Sivananda
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Image of Laurie R. King
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.
- Laurie R. King
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Image of Shana Abe
I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.
- Shana Abe
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Image of Sijie Dai
In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.
- Sijie Dai
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Image of Kay Hooper
Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul
- Kay Hooper
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Image of Jean-Pierre de Caussade
All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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Image of Susan Abulhawa
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
- Susan Abulhawa
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Image of Adam Young
I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.
- Adam Young
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Image of Kirsten Miller
Love and faith go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And as we all know, taking the leap ain't always safe. Sometimes you judge poorly, and you land right on your face. But unless you make the jump, you'll never know what's on the other side. You just gotta find the guts to do it.
- Kirsten Miller
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