Hands Intertwined Quotes

#1. The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]

Elias Canetti

#2. I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

Elizabeth Peyton

#3. I watched the way our fingers intertwined, and I thought, What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on.

James Patterson

#4. He shrugged, looking right into my eyes. "Right now, this is all I feel." He held our intertwined hands up for me to see and I wanted to look away, but I couldn't break the hold his gaze had on me, like he could see more than anyone else saw. Things I couldn't see myself.

Rachel Vincent

#5. When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Gustave Courbet

#6. The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

David Foster Wallace

#7. Jonas was careful about language.

Lois Lowry

#8. He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, Have I lost you love?

Erin Jamison

#9. With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#10. Human beings are religious animals.

Umberto Eco

#11. Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

Orson Scott Card

#12. You may be the only one who'll see through all my bullshit and help me try to be something more, something better."
I stare at our intertwined hands. "I don't want to help you try to be anything. I want someone who's already something more. On his own. With or without me.

Tammara Webber

#13. Eloise and Eric Hunter gave each other one last, lingering, meaningful kiss, before they took their last breaths, their hands still intertwined.

Rebekah Mussett

#14. What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

Bill Drayton

#15. Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

Anna D. Shapiro

#17. It was the first time either of them had ever held another's hand, and for them alone, the immensity of what unfolded that night was overshadowed by the perfect wonderment of fingers intertwined - as though this was what hands had always been for, and not for holding weapons at all.

Laini Taylor

#18. We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Stephen Fry

#19. I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...

David Ski

#20. You need to silence the voices that say you cannot do what you set out to.

David Waweru

#21. I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town in France. Hip hop has made a huge impact on urban culture. Yet many brands still don't speak to young people in a tone and manner that's representative of them.

Steve Stoute