Top 100 In Your Hands Quotes
#1. Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
#2. The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#3. You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
Dwight Gooden
#4. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything
the miracle
is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
Jeanette Winterson
#5. If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.
Jenny Pitman
#7. Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
Jojo Moyes
#8. Hey, Kami. I was wondering if I could get a dance with the best-looking girl in the room."
"Sure," Kami said. "Go ask Angela. Take your life in your hands. I'll miss you and all, but I'm going to give her an alibi for the murder, because that's what best friends do.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#9. Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
Bobby Jones
#10. You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
Will Rogers
#11. Working with those versed in the Mystical Arts was sometimes like trying to knit with wet spaghetti: just when you thought you'd gotten somewhere, it all came to pieces in your hands.
Jasper Fforde
#12. Home is my heart in your hands, and yours in mine. Nothing will ever change that.
T.A. Chase
#13. There are three kinds of souls, three kinds of prayers. One: I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me lest I rot. Two: Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. Three: Overdraw me, and who cares if I break! Choose!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#14. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#15. To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it's a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.
Anthony Doerr
#17. You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.
Henry B. Eyring
#18. I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.
Jeanette Winterson
#19. Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.
Leo Buscaglia
#20. Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.
Abhijit Naskar
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Anonymous
#22. You are an amazing woman. I could not have chosen a better place to let my heart rest than in your hands.
C.C. Wood
#23. The only thing in your hands is your life - make it as rich as possible.
Osho
#24. To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if you've got money in your pocket, you'll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector.
Tim Walz
#25. A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)
Neil Gaiman
#26. Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
Martina Mcbride
#27. Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.
Josh Pyke
#28. It is the children who will be most malleable in your hands. Train them up in the way you would have them to go, and the next generation of Mizgalians will be the first of many to reach the state of perfection that I seek.
Nicole Sager
#29. The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#30. Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God's will.
Louie Giglio
#31. Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change!
Rhonda Byrne
#32. Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.
Sigrid Undset
#33. There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the betrayal that you don't see, hidden within the white void of truth.
Lionel Suggs
#34. I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!
Jay Alan Sekulow
#35. Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.
Spencer W. Kimball
#36. You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.
Paula D'Arcy
#37. That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
Ramona Koval
#38. I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.
Arnold Palmer
#39. There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
John Gregory Brown
#40. You have my life,
My heart,
My soul in your hands
April Nichole
#41. France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder
#42. I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.
Ajay Mehta
#43. Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.
Markus Zusak
#44. Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT
Pablo
#45. You kind of go through situations that don't work out, and then all of a sudden you have this baby in your hands and you forget about all of that. You forget about the last three years of your life. You just realize that everything unfolded exactly the way it was supposed to unfold.
Kristen Stewart
#46. There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.
Michael Jackson
#47. I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.
Jenny Han
#48. You are, without doubt, holding in your hands one of the best-introduced books in the English language. We hope you enjoy the Introduction to the New Edition that follows this Introduction to it and continue to read on even into the book itself.
Douglas Adams
#49. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.
John Kehoe
#50. We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
Nelson Mandela
#51. It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.
David Wroblewski
#52. There's nothing new about European anti-Americanism. To go to a dinner party of intellectuals in Paris in 1960 was like walking into a tiger's den with a piece of raw meat in your hands.
Charles McCarry
#53. What sort of agreement?'
'A truth for a truth, a secret for a secret, until you feel that you hold enough of my life in your hands to trust me with yours.
Suzanne Enoch
#54. You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. 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
#57. The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
Friedrich Schiller
#58. Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.
Sara Zarr
#59. I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
Tom Waits
#60. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.
Francesca Lia Block
#61. Your circumstance is ultimately tied to your choices; you create your own destiny. Individual development is up to you - it is your responsibility. You have all eternity to grow and progress to become all you can be. Whether the journey is swift of protracted is ultimately in your hands.
Mark Ireland
#62. Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
Bill Russell
#63. I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
Mike Scott
#64. In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
Michael Ondaatje
#65. Behold
the azure sea in front of you,
the turquoise sky above you,
the amber mountain beneath your feet,
and the golden daisy in your hands.
How are you not the richest person on earth?
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#66. Tell me about the Love. Like stepping into sunlight. Like catching moonbeams in your hands. Like
Darshana Suresh
#67. You think I am afraid to love you, ma fee? Look at me, my only love, and see how you hold my heart in your hands, see how much I love you when you look into my eyes.
Paula Quinn
#68. There were some very good books in the backseat of the little Volkswagen; good books were the best protection from evil that Pepe had actually held in his hands - you could not hold faith in Jesus in your hands, not in quite the same way you could hold good books.
John Irving
#69. The information is now in your hands for you to enjoy in the way that suits you best. Learn it all, or learn a little -- the choice is yours. Have fun.
Montse Stanley
#70. God is big enough to handle anything you throw at him . . . the one thing you have to remember though, son. When you throw something, it's no longer in your hands.
Sarah Monzon
#71. The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized.
Nelson Mandela
#72. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.
Ray Bradbury
#73. In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.
T.D. Jakes
#75. A book is a dream you hold in your hands.
Neil Gaiman
#76. Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
Barbara Kingsolver
#77. I was your lover Liam, but never your partner. I won't settle for that, not even for you. You had my heart in your hands, and you didn't know what to do with it. I can tell you, without the crystal ball, without the gift, you will never have another like it.
Nora Roberts
#78. Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make
Sunday Adelaja
#79. The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go ... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Barbara Kingsolver
#80. Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?
Joseph Howe
#81. What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.
Barbara Kingsolver
#82. Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.
You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.
Manoj Arora
#83. It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.
S. Truett Cathy
#84. It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.
Flannery O'Connor
#85. Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It's a must have.
Marci Shimoff
#86. Question your thoughts.
Question your stories.
Question your assumptions.
Question your opinions.
Question your conclusions.
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
The keys to freedom are in your hands.
Use them.
Adyashanti
#87. Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people
that's in your hands.
Leo Tolstoy
#88. If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough
Mario Andretti
#89. I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
Jodi Picoult
#90. My heart is in your hands, keep me safe.
K.I. Lynn
#91. You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
Jonathan Edwards
#92. Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.
Chris Murray
#93. Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.
Laura Lam
#94. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as your were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.
Eowyn Ivey
#95. Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#96. Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.
Milton William Cooper
#97. If you have love in your heart you have the world in your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. I think I have made my message clear. It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#99. Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.
Eli Manning
#100. As the life and good fame of yonder man were in your hands there seemed no choice to me, save to be silent in accordance with your behest. Yet it was not without heavy misgivings that I thus bound myself, for, having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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