Quotes About Extending A Hand

#1. Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.

Patti Digh

#2. My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Dave Grohl

#3. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.

Walter Mosley

#4. I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

Conrad Hilton

#5. Build a bridge by extending your hand.

Ken Poirot

#6. And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. Extending your hand is extending yourself.

Rod McKuen

#8. Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Aristotle.

#9. We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens.

Learned Hand

#10. Julian Singh, he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts and (d) knee socks and (e) holding a genuine leather book bag on (f) the first day of school.

E.L. Konigsburg

#11. In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

Robert Breault

#12. It is the emptiness of the bowl that creates the bowl

Nick Flynn

#13. Ethics is a dream, and tenderness a daytime phantasm, lost when night comes.

Charles Baxter

#14. The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

Thomas Malory

#15. Baby doll, I could assert my manly dominance, thump my chest, and declare you're mine. But it wouldn't mean a damn thing if I'm not yours in return.

Kristen Callihan

#16. When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

Roger Bannister

#18. Thank you so much ... um, what's your name?'

'Nashira Jaynes.'

'I'm Jared Dernell,' he said, extending his hand.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#19. Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#20. If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Quentin Crisp