Outstretched Hand Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

Sara Zarr

#3. His glasses, carefully folded, placed in my mum's outstretched hand. His coat. An envelope. His watch. His shoes. And when we left, clutching a plastic bag with his belongings, the clouds were still there,

Helen Macdonald

#4. It came from down where laughter is a defense and not an outstretched hand.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#5. 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

#6. her outstretched hand jutting into the engine room, offering the life-sized figure of Nike that stood in her palm, like, Here, have some Victory!

Rick Riordan

#7. She was like a wild animal who didn't know whether to come to the outstretched hand or to flee and kept making startled little rushes, first in one direction and then in the other.

James Baldwin

#8. Yorda turned away from the shadow-creature just as its claws were about to close on her shoulders. Her eyes met Ico's, then fell to his outstretched hand.
Finally, fear spurred her to action. She ran and jumped.

Miyuki Miyabe

#9. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Alexander Fleming

#10. Keeper!"
He inhaled slowly, took Azalea's outstretched hand-shudders went through her throat, he felt so solid-and pressed the brooch into her marked palm.
"I was only picking it up," he said, quietly. His thumb rubbed the red nail mark on her hand. A smile crossed his lips. "Temper, temper.

Heather Dixon

#11. When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#12. Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

Pope John XXIII

#13. And also, where an outstretched hand is no longer a gesture but a moment of love, lasting until sleep, until waking, until everyday life.

Kim Thuy

#14. When they see beyond the sky,
When they know beyond the mind,
When they hear the song of the Burning Light;
Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand,
Weave them together.
I shall come.

Rachel Starr Thomson

#15. Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Anne Roiphe

#16. You've ruined it now," she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan's outstretched hand. "It deserved to live, and to fly.

Lois Lowry

#17. Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.

Sam Whitehouse

#18. When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has a way of removing one's inhibitions.

Aussiescribbler

#19. He stopped. You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you

Iris Johansen

#20. Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

Isaac Hayes

#21. I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.

Hugo Chavez

#22. It is not open to the cool bystander ... to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

Winston Churchill

#23. I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Dominic West

#24. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

Eduardo Galeano

#25. Once we're out of the Wood ... , I said, but my voice died in my throat. I felt odd and sick. Did you ever get out of the Wood, if you'd been in it for twenty years?

Naomi Novik

#26. The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

Kit Williams

#27. Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

Cory Booker

#28. The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Laurence Leamer

#29. This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.

Robin McKinley

#30. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Randy Pausch

#31. What," came a deep male voice, "is this?"
Silence froze, her hand still outstretched, clutching a damp, dirty cloth. Oh, dear Lord. Slowly she raised her eyes and found herself face-to-thighs with Mickey O'Connor's extremely tight breeches.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#32. It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know.

Will Rogers

#33. Look up for the stars. Where light meets earth, the land rolls back to ache of verges but do not with it turn.

Erin Moure

#34. The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

Steven J. Lawson

#36. For a moment he thought Laurent wasn't going to do it. But in public, Laurent had no recourse to refusal. Laurent extended his hand. And then waited, palm outstretched, his eyes lifting to meet Damen's. Laurent said, 'Put it on me.' Every

C.S. Pacat

#37. When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.

Aleister Crowley

#38. But the thing is that I'm in love with Rafael's story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael's journal, it's as if I can see myself. It's better than a mirror.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#39. Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.

Charlotte Bronte

#40. I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

Amber Valletta

#41. Had a memory that he himself had once compared to the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, in that it was colorful, flitted prettily hither and thither, and was

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