Outstretched Hands Quotes

#1. Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.

Patricia Highsmith

#3. Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See
no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Anne Roiphe

#5. After a while he pulled his hat down over his eyes and stood and placed his hands outstretched on the roof of the cab and rode in that manner. As if he were some personage bearing news for the countryside. As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains ...

Cormac McCarthy

#6. 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

#7. Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

Alain Juppe

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

Pope John XXIII

#10. He turned away. "I don't want a lecture."
Fair enough. "What do you want?"
"Do you really want to know?"
Kat scooted a little closer but not enough to touch him. "Yes. I wouldn't ask if I didn't."
He stared straight ahead. "I want to forget.

Laurann Dohner

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

Edward McKendree Bounds

#12. Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach ... passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.

William Golding

#13. I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.

Robert Pattinson

#14. Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

Miranda July

#15. There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Brenda Strong

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

Alexander Fleming

#17. 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

#18. It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

Alain De Botton

#19. It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

Isaac Watts

#20. She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.

Edith Wharton

#21. He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

Emme Rollins

#22. 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

#23. Right now there's a man on the street outside my door
with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear.
He has cheeks like torn sheet music
every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears.
At his side there's a boy with eyes like an anthem
no one stands up for.

Andrea Gibson

#24. I think it would be nice to be a prince.

Dee Dee Ramone

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

Laurence Leamer