Hands Wide Open Quotes

#1. Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

Marge Piercy

#2. Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

Idries Shah

#3. Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.

Penelope Cruz

#4. When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Josh Billings

#5. It takes me five rounds to hit the middle of the target, and when I do, a rush of energy goes through me. I am awake, my eyes wide open, my hands warm.

Veronica Roth

#6. Hands down, that's the most romantic thing I've ever heard. I can pretty much feel my legs just falling wide open for you right now.

Kylie Scott

#7. I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

Kerry Washington

#8. If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

John Brunner

#9. Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.

Ally Condie

#10. The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

Ismail Haniyeh

#11. I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

Holly Black

#12. I want your hands on my head."
I nod and edge back to make room for him. "Does it calm your racing thoughts?"
He shakes his head, then takes my hand and spreads it open over his wide chest, his voice textured as he traps my gaze with his. "It calms me here.

Katy Evans

#13. Magic was nothing more than desire made real,

Deborah Harkness

#14. Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

John Mayer