In My Hands Quotes

#1. For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers ...

Richard Brautigan

#2. It's a good thing Jack was no longer in my hands, because I would've pulled a full-on Kylo Ren temper tantrum.

Rick Riordan

#3. I would catch them fast, eternally, thanks to the properties of my wonderful machine. In my hands I had the power to stop time,or so I fancied.

William Boyd

#4. There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
My head in my hands down on my knees

Stevie Nicks

#5. I stare at the table for a moment, lost in thoughts of what it will be like to hold a human being that I made in my hands. I can write a song and I can play it until my fingers bleed, but I can't carry music in my hands. I can't touch it or smell it. I can't give it my heart.

Cassia Leo

#6. This is the worst day of my life'. I groaned and put my head in my hands.
'You can't possibly know that. You might have something really awful going to happen to you later on. All your children burned to death or your nose cut off in a revolving door'.

Victoria Clayton

#7. I was born with my voice in my hands.

Kathryn Lomer

#8. I was sitting at my desk one day, my head in my hands, and I had that middle ache that is just the pain that comes with being alive sometimes, that kind of personal despair.

Elizabeth Berg

#9. I was young and beginning to study the Bible for myself and, in the process, came to believe that I held a volatile document in my hands-one that had the potential to destroy all religion from the inside out.

Bruxy Cavey

#10. Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea's goal for many years. I had in my hands a 22-year-old goalkeeper I thought could be in Chelsea's goals for years and years and years and this situation is quite similar.

Jose Mourinho

#11. Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

Imogen Heap

#12. The Odd Couple. Is this that one where the one guy is a mess and the other is a neat freak?"
"Yes, it is."
"And you are?"
"A mess." Then he looked at the book in my hands. "Oh, you mean in the play? I'm the neat freak. Felix.

Kasie West

#13. I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.

Marie Lu

#14. Don't misunderstand, Ella. I want you. So fucking bad." I gathered her face in my hands. "The day I can finally bury myself inside of you is the day I know for sure that you're mine. All mine. Only mine. And anything other than that isn't good enough.

Christina Lee

#15. I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.

Courtney Summers

#16. All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact - yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.

Frank Herbert

#17. This woman is like clay in my hands, waiting to be molded into something brilliant and dazzling like a piece of sculpture.

Ella Dominguez

#18. I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

Graeme McDowell

#19. I believe this is yours." I hand her the last dart in my hand. "And this is mine." I cup her face in my hands before she can think anything else, and I kiss her.

Angeline Kace

#20. If I die tonight, I want to die remembering what it was like to hold the whole world in my hands.

Leylah Attar

#21. The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

Mahmoud Darwish

#22. I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Jan Karon

#23. My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

Robert Griffin III

#24. When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

Method Man

#25. Each step toward love. Each step toward revenge. I walked toward the end of something, maybe the end of everything. And it was all in my hands.

Karina Halle

#26. Grabbing his very fine, very taut ass in my hands, I squeezed. "I need more coffee to deal with your gift, ace."
Chapter 8, pg 131

Sylvia Day

#27. I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.

Jennifer Haigh

#28. I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.

Stephanie Meyer

#29. I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow ... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Rosemary Clooney

#30. I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

Bradford Cox

#31. I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

Katharine McPhee

#32. The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#33. I am Delilah Bard, she thought, as the ropes cut into her skin. I am a thief and a pirate and a traveler. I have set foot in three different worlds, and lived. I have shed the blood of royals and held magic in my hands.

Victoria Schwab

#34. When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

Rick Riordan

#35. Money feels funny in my hands. If I give you this slice of paper, you let me on the bus? It's ridiculous.

Cameron Jace

#36. My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

Claire Keegan

#37. A single pink poppy lay on the footpath, its roots still crusted with earth. I picked it up and it drooped forlornly in my hands.

Lili Wilkinson

#38. I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Eugene Jarvis

#39. There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time ... until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

Juan Rulfo

#40. Oh, I'm just checking out books. I glanced at the one I was holding. Somehow, of all the places I could duck into, I'd wound up in the erotica section. In my hands was a book about bondage. Somebody kill me now.

Cindi Madsen

#41. The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

Rick Warren

#42. I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Dorothy Dunnett

#43. Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

William Wordsworth

#44. I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

George Harrison

#45. Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

Neil Gaiman

#46. I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#47. Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the feel of their weight in my hands, the rustle of the pages as I turned them, the magnificent illustrations on the covers that promised hidden treasures within.

Steve Pemberton

#48. I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was.

Gillian Flynn

#49. My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

Rebecca West

#50. I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

Nicole Richie

#51. You hae only one thing you may control tonight - whether to use your safe word or not. Otherwise all the decisions, all the choices, are mine. Everything is in my hands. (Jake to Kallie)

Cherise Sinclair

#52. I probably won't be able to look forward to summer for a long time. My chest will hurt. My tears will be overflowing. But this warmth in my hands and these summer memories will live on in my heart.

Yuki Midorikawa

#53. Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.

Emile Zola

#54. I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

William John Locke

#55. When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.

Mickey Wright

#56. The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

Marion Bartoli

#57. In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

Larry Bird

#58. ... I craved to stroke that delicate skin and run my fingers through her tresses as she moaned with hunger. I would grip a thick section of her hair in my hands, wrap it around my fingers, and take her from behind. And she would scream my name.

Kenya Wright

#59. It's impossible to feel homesick with the familiar weight of the book in my hands.

Paige McKenzie

#60. I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#61. I wanna DeYtH Banger in my hands... he to die!

Deyth Banger

#62. I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

#63. My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

Jeremy Lin

#64. Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it's ending,
Like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel
Like there's nothing left of me?

Demi Lovato

#65. I'm very excited to see the wonderful 2-D characters in Poptropica come to life in the form of 3-D toys. When I first held the characters in my hands, it felt like magic. I'm excited for kids to have the same feeling!

Jeff Kinney

#66. Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Sharon M. Draper

#67. I'm sick of staring at what I want, I thought. I'd do anything to hold it in my hands.

Cath Crowley

#68. What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

Anais Nin

#69. I want you like this forever," he whispers. "Spread open on my lap, your skin in my hands, your pussy hot and tight around my fingers. You are so fucking beautiful.

Anonymous

#70. I buried my face in my hands. This wasn't a train wreck. It was a nuclear disaster.

K.S. Ruff

#71. I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I've stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put in my hands in a matter of minutes.

Michael Perry

#72. Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Steve Earle

#73. I held it in my hands like it was a baby (and, just for reference, I hold babies like they are snakes).

Karina Halle

#74. Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.

Anne Bishop

#75. I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands.

Sarah Kane

#76. I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused and thought. "I want everything.

Neil Gaiman

#77. So many times you've taken my breath away or made it feel like my heart was trapped inside my stomach. But last night was more than any fourteen-year-old boy could handle. So I took your face in my hands and I kissed you, just like I've been dreaming of doing for over a year now.

Colleen Hoover

#78. I can't hold on to you. You're like a shooting star. Just a trail of fire in my hands.

Leah Raeder

#79. 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

Natalie MacMaster

#80. Oh, and I'm never going to lie to you again.
Ever.
I mean it.
Ten years from now, if Kate asks me if a certain pair of jeans makes her ass look fat - and they do? I'm going to take my life in my hands and say yes.
I swear.

Emma Chase

#81. Take my dream,
sew it, wear it,
a dress.
You made yesterday
sleep in my hands,
leading me around,
spinning me like a moan
in the sun's carts,
a seagull soaring,
launched from my eyes.

Adonis

#82. She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that.
Instead she said, You drool when you sleep.

Rick Riordan

#83. There was panic in my eyes. I looked into my own eyes and back down at my hands. Horrid age spots, two scars. Un-Indian, nervous, lonely hands. I could see children and men and gardens in my hands. His

Lucia Berlin

#84. The bow was in my hands and an arrow notched before I could blink. I took aim and fired, as if Artemis herself had taken over my limbs and guided my shot.

A.A. Chamberlynn

#85. I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch and cracked the spine. It had the feel of a book that hadn't been touched in decades, creaking, as if to say ahhh.

Sarah Jio

#86. I loved him too much. I was constantly worried that I wouldn't be able to hold on to him. He was lightning in a bottle, a dream I tried to hold in my hands.

Sylvia Day

#87. I stop in front of Olivia and cup her face in my hands, kissing her sweetly on the mouth. She looks up at me with her liquid eyes and something in me melts away. I think to myself that I hope it wasn't something important. Something that I needed.

M. Leighton

#88. The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

Ted Hughes

#89. Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

Amy Alcott

#90. I take Peeta's face in my hands. Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight.

Suzanne Collins

#91. I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#92. Summer Stoltz had taken a cruise to Insanity Sea, and now I was docked back on land. And I felt the shit. I was the shit. Shithead Summer - that was my new name. I groaned, catching my head in my hands. "Oh, no.

Tijan

#93. I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[ ... ] I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.

Ingmar Bergman

#94. I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

Neil Diamond

#95. You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

Stan Getz

#96. The power to take charge was in my hands; all I had to do was believe it.

Steven Pressfield

#97. I had terrible, horrific luck with cell phones. I'd left behind a graveyard of cell phones, piles of phones that simply had the misfortune of ending up in my hands, but like I had with everyone before it, I really hoped this time was different.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#98. The power to change is in my hands.

Helen M. Ryan

#99. I wish I could hold the play (Romeo and Juliet) in my hands right now. I want to read it. I want to know that someone else has felt what I feel, even if that person never existed outside one man's imagination.

Kitty Thomas

#100. I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Martin Luther