Quotation Explorer - 'Hand'

Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes! - Mehmet Murat ildan

And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love - Georges Limbour

Feels pain when the love of one hand clapping but more painful when the person you love turns out never happy living with you.Sakit rasanya bila cinta bertepuk sebelah tangan tapi lebih sakit bila orang yang kamu cintai ternyata tak pernah bahagia hidup bersamamu - M.Rivai

A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage - Hero Shade

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. - George Iles

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand - unknown

Love is waiting for you, lifting her hand, open your heart and accept it. - Debasish Mridha

For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life. - Lavon Curtis

Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen.. - T.S. Eliot

No matter what you have, no matter your experience level, sometimes you just need a hand. - Auliq Ice

Wherever you are, whoever you are, I am touching you and feeling you, not with my hand, but with my feelings and love. - Debasish Mridha

Will you accompany me in this dance? he said, bowing and holding out his hand. No, thank you. Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance. Miri laughed self consciously. I, uh, I was teasing. - Shannon Hale

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny. - Laurie Colwin

On a daily basis, people lose their lives, they lose their health, they lose their families, and they lose their children, only because they refuse to have a corresponding knowledge to what they possess in hand. - Sunday Adelaja

Obedience moves the hand of the Lord. - Daryl Baugh

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude... - Oksana Rus

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand! - Dylan Moran

What his time spent with women offered was the opportunity 2 be embraced by reality on the one hand, while negating it entirely on the other - Haruki Murakami

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. - John Leonard

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. - Nikolai Gogol

Elegance; it lacks the intellect -he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's. - Jazz Feylynn

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys! - Mehmet Murat ildan

They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel. - Robert Jordan

Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms. - Aniruddha Sastikar

The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable. - Erica Sehyun Song

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. - Sam Levenson

Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we! - Spencer W. Kimball

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less. - Jim Elliot

Vid ett tillfälle var det ett ungt vårdbiträde som utan att tänka sig för sträckte ut sin hand när hon inte hade skyddshandskarna på och tråkade hans tårar. - Jonas Gardell

People will continue to doubt you until they witness first hand the results of what you have mastered. - Paul Bamikole

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. - Horace

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game. - Terence McKenna

Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile. M.Sullivan - Mike Sullivan

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. - Sam Levenson

Sometimes I briefly touch the life I want. My hand brushes the surface as I pass it by. - C M Meridian

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need. - Ha Jin

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. - Yongey Mingyur

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse - Dean Cavanagh

Every time I hold your hand in the night and look at that star, I remember the fact that it is millions of light years away from us, we are looking at its past and it doesn't exist anymore and I always end up feeling, what if we both are made up of the dust of the same star we are staring at. - Akshay Vasu

The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. - Jack London

A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand youRipe on a plate. And while you live,Relentlessly she understands you. - Phyllis McGinley

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou

Everyone needs a helping hand, You just have to offer it. - Analiza Micheal

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling - Sunday Adelaja

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.) - Charles de Leusse

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh Macleod

On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth. - Criss Jami

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. - Heda Bejar

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. - Bill Moyers

You’re here, I continued. At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. - Haruki Murakami

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book? - Pat Conroy

As he came from his mother's wombNaked shall he return to go as he cameNothing from his labor will he carry away in his hand Ecclesiastes - Anonymous

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. - Bible

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded. - Ann Radcliffe

My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand - Sunday Adelaja

We may not have the power to move mountains, but if we have the power to take someone's hand and named them loved and forgiven we have power enough. - Dianne Astle

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. - Walter Sickert

If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down. - Kristin Richter

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now! - Israelmore Ayivor

Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing. - Yasmin Mogahed

Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again. - Patricia Briggs

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. - Wassilly Kandinsky

Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. - Woody Allen

I cannot help, but when danger is at hand remember always that I am here to stand -- or fall -- with you. - Harry Stoker

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious. - George Lakoff

All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together. - Daniel Quinn

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. "More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!" So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long "interview." Barson Maith - Ambrose Bierce

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. - Victor Hugo

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises - Martin Buber

The universe is a mirror; however you look at it, it will look back to you exactly the same way. So extend your hand with love. The universe will hug you with a loving heart. - Debasish Mridha

The only thing almost all people don’t understand is something whose monetary benefits they don’t find it coming in their pockets or hand. - Anuj Somany

Thanks for holding my hand" she said, smiling while wiping away the tears off her face. If only she’d let me hold more than her hand, If only she’d let me hold her heart too. - dandelionlady96

As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence. - Michael A. Wood Jr.

4. Real men are men who have devoted their lives to solving the problem of others and giving a helping hand to those they meet in their journey through life. These are the kind of men that history can never forget. - Dr. Bien Sufficient

I slipped my hand into hers. A strange and unfamiliar feeling ran through me. It felt like the ocean, like sunlight, like horses. Like love. I searched my mind and found the name for it. Joy. - Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity. - William Shakespeare

A little of God will not move the hand of God. - Teresa Odden

Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the dayYour footsteps guide my steps all alongBeneath my skin your veins belong. - Munia Khan

In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

You may not get it right the first time...life happens,people meddle,you frustrate each other and in those circumstances,you drift apart...When you get a second chance and the universe smiles at you,destiny lends a hand and fate brings you together again,Do not mess it up - Dru Edmund Kucherera

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain

Seeking Your face and not only Your hand, I find You embracing me just as I am. - Big Daddy Weave

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. - Victor Hugo

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. - Bible

Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance.Ugly is not the absence of beauty.Uglyis the inability to identify it.The inability to be surprised by it.It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it.Beauty is simplythe manifestation oflove. - Kamand Kojouri

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns. - Dan Rather

I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand. - Nathan Reese Maher

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: - Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. - Letitia Landon

A hand held tightly, never to really let go.Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul. - Patty Smith

You Will Never Live A Perfect Life - Getting In A Relationship Is Like Diving In A Sea, You Can Drown And Whales And Sharks Can Kill You. On The Other Hand, Being Single Is Like Staying Away From That Water, You Will Starve. - Cyc Jouzy

Extend your hand to help others and be an example. - Debasish Mridha

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric. - Buffy Andrews

…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. - Glenn Duncan

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. - Roy Bennett

Happiness Is When Your Heart and Soul Are Walking Hand In Hand - Marieke Stoop

When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help heal my heart. - Debasish Mridha

Life: You either play the hand you're dealt, or fold.....I choose to play.~ - Rick Ferreira

There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night. - John Collier

Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can. - Stephenie Meyer

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe. - Geoffrey Wood

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself - Israelmore Ayivor

Für den neuen Herrn, der die Zügel des Betriebes in seine feste Hand genommen hatte, mußten doch ohne weiteres neue Unternehmungen eintreten, die Erfolge warteten auf ihn, die Ereignisse hatten sich seiner Persönlichkeit anzupassen!... - Heinrich Mann

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. — - Richard Due

The only time I hold my wife's hand tightly is when my wallet is in her other hand. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied. - Zadie Smith

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. - Jacqueline Cochran

What’s the mission at hand? To save the Church? To save the pope? Uncover a menacing secret society within the Church? Eliminate the would-be assassins? Or could it be something else, something even more portentous and earth-shattering? - Peter J Tanous

someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree with my hand eternally woven in yours. - Sanober Khan

He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand. - Barbara Kingsolver

Carry a heart, not a weapon,Use your hand to help not to kill - Deepsha

The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession into a ball and was trying to get it into his mouth to eat it, but couldn't quote reach. - Chris Wooding

Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love. - Kamand Kojouri

Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone to laugh at the sobriquet. "Excuse me, but how exactly do you pronounce that? Faf-hrud?""Just Faf-erd. - Fritz Leiber

There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different. - Piper Payne

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. - Joseph Conrad

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand. - William Shakespeare

I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house. - Sui Ishida

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something. - Sarah Addison Allen

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. - Marjorie Holmes

Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences. - Josh Tenenbaum

It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand. - John Wick

A hand is not enough...to never let go - Munia Khan

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe. - Thomas Clifford Allbutt

God gives, but man must open his hand. - German Proverb

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. - Mother Teresa

Take a chance. Don’t fear change. Life won’t hand you your dreams. Every time a door closes or you let go of something, you will find that there is room for new possibilities to enter. You aren’t saying goodbye. You are saying hello. - Brittany Burgunder

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. - Paulo Coelho

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield) - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. - Jonathan Haidt

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your bird just went up!! - Neil Leckman

wait until god call u , but don't wait forone's helping hand because god given utwo hands - yakoobkhan

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus - Alexander Graham Bell

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. - William Blake

If you have one clean hand and one dirty, you do not get two clean hands by rubbing them together. - The Mexican Horse Thief

407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. - Qiu Xiaolong

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride! - Theresa Hollis

The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you - Hisham Fawzi

Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning. - Carroll Bryant

Laugh and love; live life to the fullest. Care and share; extend your hand to the most needy. - Debasish Mridha

Let go yesterday and hold out for tomorrow, the future is in the palm of your hand. - L.L. Caulton

One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet) - Seneca

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room. - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand. - Orson Scott Card

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living. - Munia Khan

Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do. - Mike Doughty

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. - Gwendolyn Brooks

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s like I’m trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn’t work. It’s stupid. I need both hands. So I guess I just have to spread out my arms and accept the bad with the good. - Andrea Lochen

Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny. - Abhijit Naskar

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. - Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. - Hilary Mantel

Weak hand needs strong hand till it becomes a strong hand; weak mind needs strong mind till it becomes a strong mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work. - Dada Bhagwan

He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in fact, he could not cry with no tear ducts. But now, at last, he was. He was crying tears of blood. For her. - Phillip W. Simpson

A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you’re wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs. - Debasish Mridha

As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen. - Persian Proverb

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

In the sinking sand,where we’ve come to rest,have I had a hand in your loneliness? - Joanna Newsom

When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in life. - Mohit Manke

There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable. - Nikolas Schreck

Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. - ML Stedman

There is a chest inside my heart, where a magical world is hidden. With my novels, I hand to you the key to that world. - P. J. Mann

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. They stood like the naked pipes of a vast derelict calliope, their mouths cut into frantic vents. And now the great hand of mania descended upon one hundred-throated, unending scream. - Ray Bradbury

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... - Yasunari Kawabata

Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet. - Jeremy Bentham

,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand. - John Bude

If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you'd be there already. Put your hand to your heart, take a deep breath in...listen to your heart. It knows. - Eileen Anglin

I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand. - Vicktor Alexander

Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God's hand and step into your future without fear. - Surgeo Bell

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one. - Layne Beachley

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me. - Gerard Way

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. - Bible

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella. - David Nicholls

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. - George Bernard Shaw

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I dreamt that I was old. And you – you were beside me.Forever young – in your hand, a cup of stars. - Joanne Harris

For I dance And drink and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd strength and breathAnd the wantOf thought is deathThen am IA happy flyIf I liveOr if I die - William Blake

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us - Orison Swett Marden

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa

holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things - Brandon Scott Gorrell

You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. - Ava Gardner

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad. - Veronika Carnaby

If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

All of my days are held in your hand, crafted into your perfect Plan. - Moosa Rahat

I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn. - Coco J. Ginger

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?""Can you do it with your left? - Jennifer A. Nielsen

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe. - Boethius

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. - Persian Proverb

Just take my hand &let us dance under a chandelier of starlight. - Trevor Driggers

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. - Hubert H. Humphrey

"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

The sword has no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie. - Marty Rubin

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart. - Jerome K. Jerome

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand. - YKRaikou

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. - Meister Eckhart

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native landNever to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. - Aristophanes

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. - Anne Frank

I remember touching her hand for the first time. I remember kissing her angelic soft lips for the first time . Everything seemed so easy , everything seemed possible . She smiled at me and flew away - Amine Fatmi

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. - Evelyn L. Colon

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! - Amy Tan

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got. - Allan Heinberg

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. - Jesus/John

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. - Jonathan Safran Foer

Don’t fear; always extend your hand to help others. - Debasish Mridha

...the movie is on, but I’m not really watching…the music is playing, but I’m not really listening…all of my senses are focused on you… us… the way your hand fits mine… the way our hearts beat as one… the passion that we’re engulfed in… the love we make... the life we build. - Steve Maraboli

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Her soul was soothed by his presence, Her mind was soothed by his beliefsHer heart was soothed by his love And for the first time, she could see a future with someone who grabbed her by the hand and took her courageous being away from all that had her questioning life. - Nikki Rowe

If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone. - June Matthews

The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren. - C.H.SPURGEON

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. - Mark Twain

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. - Leone Levi

If I never get to see the Northern lights. Or if I never get to see the Eiffel Tower at night. Oh, if all I got, is your hand in my hand, baby I could die, a happy man. - Thomas Rhett

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff

His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. - Bible

HAPPINESS is based on externals; it fluctuates up and down every day. JOY, on the other hand, is internal; it can be cultivated and nurtured. We can be joyful even in the midst of a chaotic, unpredictable world. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger. - Claire Sylvia

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Your half empty..A broken glass,I love you can sound so beautifulUntil you stop to listenThat terrible background noise,you have no idea how bad I want to hold youBut I’m afraid I’ll cut my hand. - Brittany Williams

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces. - Jean Sibelius

God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line. - Shannon L. Alder

For god sake to live in awesome,cool place you should have rules in your right hand and on the left hand you should have a program which can run based on this rules. - Deyth Banger

woman who stays back with her abusive life ,never met a courageous man ,who holds her hand in open society - litymunshi

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart. - Shawn Lukas

Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddamn hand dies on you - J. D. Salinger

Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand. - Taylor Patton

If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you'd already be there. Put your hand to your heart. Take a deep breath in. It knows. - Eileen Anglin

There's isn't any slight of hand in Spirituality, everything you desire is right there for you to see. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

When you find someone is crying and her life is torn, just be kind, extend your hand with love and be a best friend. - Debasish Mridha

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand. - Stephen R. Lawhead

Memories are strange things. Without being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is no water. - Joy Sikorski

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. - Marie Beyon Ray

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. - Douglas C. Engelbart

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine. - Glyncora Murphy

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. - Marie Beynon Ray

When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you know it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand - Gary Hopkins

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart - Munia Khan

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name. - Dylan Thomas

Love and betrayal comes hand in hand. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. - Frank Lloyd Wright

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. - Kamand Kojouri

Destiny and efforts both go hand in hand. - Nausheen Khan

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. - Isaiah 64 8

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand. - David McGee

Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world. - Grady Nutt

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation. - Stefan Molyneux

When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years...."When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting... - Daleen Van Tonder

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me. - Hannah Kahn

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Walter Scott

Have you ever wondered why there are so many Gods and so many religions? It is because in the Land of the Gods, there is not a single hand to guide the Gods on a proper path. - Lionel Suggs

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. - Vasily Kandinsky

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. - Kahlil Gibran

In the road of right and wrong, trust me and hold my hand. Let's walk into the cave none has ever strayed into, where nothing matters except us. With the light, you hold in your eyes, let me destroy all the darkness in there. - Akshay Vasu

Plant the seeds of trust and compassionMake caring and sharing a life's missionHold hand with dreams of greatness Peace will grow with beauty and fragrance. - Debasish Mridha

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. - Che Guevara

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass. - Roman Payne

Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let's always lend a helping hand. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'. - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. - Persian Proverb

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. - Margaret Atwood

what? shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? - Job 2:10

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not. - Tyler Knott Gregson

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. - Aristotle

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. - Kahlil Gibran

If you must keep a journal for puposes of sanity, adopt an illegible hand. - R. Bryan Love

Whatever hand life has dealt you, seeing it positively will always make it a winning one! - Stephen Richards

Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God's creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest of us. - Unarine Ramaru

I shook Alan’s hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you’re looking for what to say and it’s on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you. - Pamela Alvarado

Every Human creates for another Human, So every Human has a 'Hope' for other Human, Try to recognize and never let it down because your 'Hope' is also in hand of another Human. - Arbab J. Edhi

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. - Alan W. Watts

Grrrrowpt. said dead Penelope. Dead Huthbert nodded, and hugged her. She moved his dusty hand from her dusty ass." — BATS 2015 - Fred Barnett

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. - E. V. Lucas

A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. - Confucius

East or West, Home is BestNorth or South, Hand to Mouth - Doctor You

Stories aren't facts, Cait, they're not details. Stories are feelings. You've got your feelings, haven't you?""Too many," I said."Well, that's all you need." He put his hand on mine. "Cry yourself a story, love. It works. Believe me."So that's what I did, I cried myself a story.And this is it. - Kevin Brooks

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health. - Amit Kalantri

He enables [his children] to walk before him; he holds their hand in difficulties; he himself carries them along in hardships that he sees as being otherwise unbearable to them. - Francis de Sales

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. - Epicurus

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural. - George Eliot

Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Why do you stay in the prison of stress when keys are in your hand? - Debasish Mridha

When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow. - P. H. Solomon

Oh my Valentine! I want to wake up and enjoy every sunrise with you and vanish into your hand at the sunset of my life. - Debasish Mridha

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them.Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand! - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand. - John Bude

My friends, Mountains can only be moved when a coalition is made between the lips that pray & the hand that helps - Mwirigi LG

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. - Eric Hoffer

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. - Jacqueline Carey

The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow. - Farrah Naseem

Whenever you are depressed ,write your signature on a paper and write and write finally you ll have pain in you hand than your mind. - pavankumar nagaraj

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry. - John Keats

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. - Kurt Vonnegut

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand. - Marc Chagall

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. - Albert Camus

True success is there when a person has the ability to lose himself or herself in the search of knowledge and wisdom by using love, joy, and gratitude. On the other hand, societal success comes from the progressive realizations of worthy goals. - Debasish Mridha

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions - rassool jibraeel snyman

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? - William Shakespeare

Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up. All you need is to be sure that GOD's hand is in it. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

Its true that love doesn't come easily. Its equally hard to just let it go. Ironically, its just not in your hand. - Heenashree Khandelwal

When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow." From The Bow of Destiny - P. H. Solomon

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. - Herman E. Daly

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water? - John Steinbeck

The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand. - Wisława Szymborska

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door. - Lia Davis

Just take my hand & let us dance under a chandelier of starlight. - Trevor Driggers

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. - Ambrose Bierce

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. - Hippocrates

If you know you're going to lose something so bad, let it go with your own hand. - Amir Sheykhi

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand. - Lionel Suggs

When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand. - Carmelo S. "Nino" Amarena

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. - Carl Sandburg

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it. - Arlene J. Chai

She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance. - Jennifer A. Nielsen

Always buy pornographic books in hardback because they're easier to hold with one hand. - Robert Clark

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency. - Theodore Dalrymple

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. - Theodore Roosevelt

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain. - Napoléon Bonaparte

If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it was a winning hand at cards. To his dismay at the moment he had neither. - Jina Bacarr

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. - William Shakespeare

His hand came out and captured her by the chin. She froze, finding it hard to breathe as he gently raised her face to meet his gaze. - Lia Davis

One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go. - Kaitlin D.S. Cammie

During our first date,I wanted to hold your hand so badI almost cut mine offand threw it at youto see if you would catch it - Colin Gilbert

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

The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled. - Alice Walker

The game of life is not much in holding a good hand, as in playing a poor hand well.

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand. - Toba Beta

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. - T.E. Lawrence

The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won't be able to breathe. - Jordan Deen

Mutli-tools are like insults, girls - you should always have one on hand. - Elizabeth Little

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' - Sam Levenson

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. - Ellen Hopkins

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it easier for him to hand it over - Ivena When Heaven Weeps Ted Dekker

The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy. - Emma Cline

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. - Charles de Lint

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses. - Phil Cooke

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. - Spike Milligan

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand - Italo Calvino

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. - Dick Gregory

I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad. - Dominic Riccitello

Love in your heart is better than roses in your hand. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Even if your world seems to be falling apart, you can be confident in that you are in His hand of grace. - Sunday Adelaja

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. - Quintilian

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones--I had a childhood. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker

When the search for pleasure becomes obsessive, it holds us in thrall and keeps us from experiencing other satisfactions. Joy, on the other hand, increases our pleasure and helps us find fulfilment in any number of things, even at those times of life when physical pleasure has ebbed. - Pope Francis

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you. - Greg Brown

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. - Joseph Roux

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is. - James Otis

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. - Lewis Thomas

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou

Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand. - Jonathan Gottschall

To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation. - Debasish Mridha

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight. - Howard Pyle

He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.Dragging him with her! - V.S. Carnes

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

I'ts better with the right hand than with the wrong girl - Jørgen Willumsen

You did not come to this world for an experiment but for an assignment written on the palm of your hand. Discover yours ! - Osunsakin Adewale

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist. - Barack Obama

Everything you have said will not matter anymore one day, only those things that you never said will always haunt you and strangle you every time you see your world in someone else's hand. - Akshay Vasu

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn) - Mercedes Lackey

If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator’s hand. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. - William Shakespeare

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. - Jack Handey

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. - Ernest Hemingway

There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing. - Dixie Waters

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other? - Alexander Hamilton

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. - Roman Payne

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp. - Idries Shah

Catch my heart and take my Hand to find yourself some Big Time Love. - Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

Don't ever let the blessings from your hand take my gaze off the beauty of your face or my pursuit of the beating of your heart. - BJ Richardson

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress) - Belinda McBride

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? - Dylan Thomas

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail - Dave Matthews Band

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. - Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Be The Best Big Hearted Person You Can Be Without Being Stepped On By Others.So Even If Life Gives You A Bad Hand. At The Last Breath And Moment Of Your Life You Can Feel That Much More Complete. - David Cuoco

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war. - Alice Walker

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence. - Cristen Rodgers

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets. - Lucy Grealy

A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter. - Debasish Mridha

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? - Carroll Bryant

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand. - Ovid

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. - A. E. Housman

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. - Saadi

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. - John F. Kennedy

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? - Jean Kerr

Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived - Nikki Rowe

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand. - David W. Earle

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. - Robert Orben

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. - Confucius

Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America. - Nathaniel Parker Willis

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg. - Frank O'Hara

Everything I see in this existence tells me that we were created by the hand of a teacher. One that has left behind all the materials needed to inspire and complete our education. - Robert Anthony

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I've always known that even if the world threatens to collapse, with one hand, you'd hold up the sky, and the other, around me. - Xue Yun

We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal. - Venugopal Gupta

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - Krishnamarti

MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. - Ryan Sean O'Reilly

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. - Walt Kelly

Extend your hand; open your heart; share your grace; share your love. - Debasish Mridha

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell

Reality is in the hand of the masturbator. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's like: never relax, never take that breath, never stop to get that drink of water. You know you can always smell roses when you're running with them in your hand. - Garth Brooks

Flowers wither away when put through harsh conditions. Humans, on the other hand, have a choice. A choice to wither away or blossom. - karan godara

With warning hand I mark time's rapid flightFrom life's glad morning to its solemn nightYet through God's love, I also showThere's light above me by the shade below. - Ralph Greenleaf Whittier

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. - Seneca

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world. - Morley Callaghan

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. - Robert F. Kennedy

lIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly. - John Mortimer

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true - Rasheed Ogunlaru

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero. - Lena Hussain

Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company. - Francis Webster

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

The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out! - Stephen Richards

Which is colder, the hand or the gun? - Anthony Liccione

I think I have something that belongs to you'. I held out my open hand, the stone resting in my palm. I expected her to take it. Instead she took the whole hand, and held it. - Catherine Ryan Hyde

...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. - Anne Michaels

Getting money from my dad is a finesse job. Luckily, I have finesse coming out of my arse. I barged into his study without knocking, marched across to his desk, and held out my hand. Give me twenty pounds, I snapped. I need twenty pounds. Give it to me. Now! - Sarra Manning

The question why I don't shake hand with someone,A reason is Behind;Scumbags call it Attitude but they really don't know its actually the antimatter Waqas is composed of. - Waqas Bin Ehsan

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you. - Shannon L. Alder

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark.

I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with. - Mariah Carey

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are. - Heraclitus

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. - Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav

So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all. - Guillermo del Toro

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

Such was a poet and shall be and is-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand. - E.E. Cummings

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand - Confucius

Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever. - Unarine Ramaru

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart. - Max Lucado

At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate. - allimachus and Lycophron CXLII

Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage. - Abhijit Naskar

Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer. - Carl Sandburg

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it. - Zadie Smith

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it. - Ali ibn Abi Talib

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer

For the hand of a beauty with honest words and sensibilities so mighty.Though your mother and father had hoped for something more fragile (and flighty), - Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. - Thomas Jefferson

I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand. - Mary Lasswell

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath for one last time and let his hand go. She saw his boat drifting away they both looked at each other and waved one last time before she could not see him anymore. - Akshay Vasu

the best band for a women's hair is her man's hand - Waasay Uddin

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. - Groucho Marx

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand. - Anne Lamott

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power. - Joseph Smith Jr.

Passion for what you do goes hand in hand with style.You can say I'm a passionista - Janna Cachola

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right. - Michelle Franklin

Life is like a trek to the mountain top. Everyone will eventually climb to the top. Later, or sooner, doesn't matter. What matters is - the person who holds your hand and prevents you from falling, the one who is always there to ease the climb for you... - Mehek Bassi

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. - Fred Allen

You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire. - Steve Abbott

She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?''I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker. - Sean Black

A mute mentor & blind noviceI grabbed your hand; made me wise..."-Shahzaib - Shahzaib Ansari

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Technology is a queer thing; it brings you great gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Charles Percy Snow

Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things. - Ralph Bouma

A netizen speaks normally about one’s life’s first priority or preference through the profile picture; it’s often the person seen therein, but it could also be the product on which s/he lays the hand on or seen as an inset in this selfish and materialistic world. - Anuj Somany

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. - Mae West

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. - Tara Bray Smith

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest'cause You know just how far the east is from the westFrom one scarred hand to the other - Casting Crowns

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . . - Patrick Rothfuss

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Lifes like a game of cards, sometimes you get delt a shit hand, Work with what you got, and never show your weaknesses. Keep a poker face no matter what. - Logan Zane Hessefort

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body. - Stefan Emunds

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness. - Anne Sexton

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cars in order to win the game. - Voltaire

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance. - Anne Bradstreet

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind. - Joseph Smith Jr.

Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. - Bible

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. - William Blake

Selfishness and foolishness go hand in hand ; and its quantity in a person's life only decides as what quality of people s/he has as her/his friend. - Anuj Somany

Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.Really, a smile.'Not in a million years,' he said. - Gary D. Schmidt

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. - Barack Obama

I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I could always sleep next to you in the never ending night and hold your hand, watching the reflection of all the stars in your eyes, while you smile and watch them in the sky with wonder. - Akshay Vasu

Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand? - Parker J. Palmer

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. - Jennie Jerome Churchill

He grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time. - Dominic Riccitello

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love - Germaine de Staël

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher) - Frankie Boyle

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. - Alexander Hamilton

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. - Chinese Proverb

Come away,O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. - Kofi Annan

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever! - Atul Purohit

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. - Loretta Girzaitis

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts. - Maximilien de Robespierre

Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire

For me, time does not seem to pass; rather, it surrounds me. Thus I do not feel removed from memories, nor do they lose their intensity. I have keen recollections not because I have a good memory—I simply retrieve them from the ether. When memories have no velocity, they are very much at hand. - Peter Ruperte Lighte