Top 100 Sayings About A Hand
#1. My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.
Louis Sachar
#2. Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.
Emo Philips
#3. I left you a long time ago," I whispered, reaching up to place a hand over my breaking heart. "I just didn't realise it.
Madeline Sheehan
#4. Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court.
Luke Taylor
#5. He smiled and extended a hand. "I knew you would do it, ma petite."
"You arrogant son of a bitch." I smashed the shotgun butt into his stomach. He doubled over just enough. I hit him in the jaw. He rocked back. "Get out of my mind!
Laurell K. Hamilton
#6. There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion.
Katharine Weber
#7. Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#8. Miranda put a hand over her face and looked through her fingers, the world in pieces, her father's legs gone, the woman's torso vanished. Now they looked like broken dolls, their jaws clacking, breeze blowing through their hollows.
Helen Oyeyemi
#9. Did you have sex in that alley?" "Inside the SUV." Beth unwound her arms and sat back. She lifted a hand in the air. "High five." Vanni just stared at her blankly. "Bucket list, remember? Sex in a car.
Laurann Dohner
#10. Dad has always said that a man who raises a hand against a female lowers himself beneath her feet.
Erin Watt
#11. A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.
Martine Murray
#12. My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that.
She wished he'd punched her in the gut. It would have hurt less. Not trusting herself to keep from falling to her knees with shame right there, she just stalked down the hall.
Sarah J. Maas
#13. She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
Y. C. James Yen
#15. Respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.
Colleen Hoover
#16. I try to act cool. I've never had a hand on my thigh, under the table. Cathy - my brother's wife - is telling a very funny story about the family's trips to Bridlington, and her elderly Grandmother is doling out peas, which makes the experience even stranger.
Charlotte Stein
#17. Mark Samuels reached a hand into the darkness to silence the shrilling of his mobile phone alarm and felt his reflexes pull him awake sharply, with no consideration for the vestiges of his disordered dreams.
Justin Isis
#18. One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982
Alan J. Perlis
#19. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
Nora Roberts
#20. If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love?
Nicole Krauss
#21. Derek was telling her something about a hand in a box. It was a dead hand. Why the hell did he have to bring it to me right this second? Was it going anywhere?
Gordon Andrews
#22. That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.
Cassandra Clare
#23. The conservatives could sneer about "social engineering" if they wanted, but I thought that most people believed as I did that government should embody our best hopes and lend a hand to people who were struggling.
Joe Biden
#24. A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
Robert Jordan
#25. cornuto," a hand signal representing horns that is an ancient satanist symbol.
Nicky
#26. I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#27. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
#28. Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
Frederick Buechner
#29. A hand landed on his shoulder like an anvil. "How'd you like to stay for dinner?"
Butch looked up. The guy was wearing a baseball cap and had some kind of marking - was that a tattoo, on his face?
"How'd you like to be dinner?" said another one, who looked like some kind of model.
J.R. Ward
#30. In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
John Leonard
#31. You are different." She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline.
He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin.
"For whatever reason," she said softly, "when you are with me, you are
simply Isaac and I am Coral.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#32. Ford put a hand to his head. "Back up. Back up!" he cried. "You're too close."
Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge.
"I think he meant for the ghost to back up," Jenks said dryly.
Kim Harrison
#33. Ravenwood ran a hand through his wavy chestnut hair, upsetting the careful work of his valet.
Or not. Given the popularity of the "frightened owl" hairstyle today, Amelia couldn't fathom much effort being involved at all.
Erica Ridley
#34. Stilgar put a hand on Idaho's shoulder. All men are interlopers, old friend.
Frank Herbert
#35. Then maybe you can help me out with something. I need an armaments shop. I want to buy a sword. A really good one." Jace looked surprised, then amused. "What for?" "Oh, you know. Killing." Clary made a hand gesture she hoped conveyed her murderous intentions toward all things evil.
Cassandra Clare
#36. Oh God," Jase groaned, rubbing a hand down his jaw. "She's a friend, Dad."
"Uh-huh." His father backed up, picking up the bucket. "Friends with a pretty gal like that, then you're doing something wrong, son.
J. Lynn
#37. Ludlow put a hand on his arm. A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.
F.E. Higgins
#38. To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up ... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
James Langevin
#39. She had to remember that there was power and magic in life: that when the sun laid a ray as warm as a hand on her head as they left the graveyard, it could be an unseen hand, reaching out to her with love. Only changed, and not strange forever.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#40. Amore." Giacomo pressed a hand against his heart. "How we suffer for it.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#41. My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.
Rebecca Gayheart
#42. Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#43. The fragility of our era is this, too: we don't believe that there is a chance for redemption; for a hand to raise you up; for an embrace to save you, forgive you, pick you up, flood you with infinite, patient, indulgent love; to put you back on your feet. We need mercy. We
Pope Francis
#44. People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.
David Gower
#45. Jayden didn't take his eyes off me as he put a hand on Blake's face and shoved him back. Be gone.
A&E Kirk
#46. Ladies first." He places a hand on the ladder and gives it a pat.
As I step in front of him, my shoulder brushes against his chest.
Shannon Duffy
#47. I pulled away. He stopped me with a hand on my wrist. "Wait," he said. "I know what you're thinking."
"What?"
"It's written all over your face." He pushed a lock of hair out of my eyes. "I'm not going anywhere.
Jennifer Rush
#48. This is you. She pointed at the stick figure with enormous red curly marks and blue eyes.
Did my hair really look like that? I ran a hand over my head, feeling a bit like Little Orphan Annie.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#49. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
John Waters
#50. Believe me, even partially releasing you from a fascist spell was my pleasure, said Magnus, lifting a hand. He wore many rings, which glittered in the spring sunshine. Simon thought he must dazzle his enemies with his magical prowess, but also his glitter.
Cassandra Clare
#51. Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.
Orson Scott Card
#52. A hand closed over my wrist. I looked over, and there was Lilly, cast in moonlight and blue, hair snaking around her, a siren calling to me: 'come on.
Kevin Emerson
#54. Garrett ran a hand through his hair. "How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn't that a conflict of interest?"
"You expect me to stake myself?" Sean growled.
"I've got a nice, big one you can borrow," Gregori suggested.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#55. He slid a hand into her hair, tightening his grip enough to lightly tug her head up so that she was looking into his eyes again. Don't make promises you can't keep.
Jill Shalvis
#56. Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered.
Seanan McGuire
#57. Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity.
Donna Tartt
#58. Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May
#59. What bird are you calling?' I ask, finally, when I can't stand it any longer. The bird man stops whistling. He grins, so that I can see all his pebbly teeth. He holds out a hand to me over the broth-thin water. 'You.
Karen Russell
#60. 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
#61. Oh, well that can't have been me," Harry smiled grimly, clapping a hand on Malone's shoulder as he moved past the big man. "You're still alive. . ." 7:03
Stephen England
#62. To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
Michel De Montaigne
#63. A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.
Doris Grumbach
#64. I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
R. T. Rybak
#65. Tamani smiled softly and lifted a hand to her face, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear and letting his thumb rest on her cheek. 'Trust me, it's no picnic missing you. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Aprilynne Pike
#66. If you lay a hand on her,
I will destroy you.
I will rip your head off with my bare hands and watch you burn in the sun
Richelle Mead
#67. There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katharine Whitehorn
#68. No matter what you have, no matter your experience level, sometimes you just need a hand.
Auliq Ice
#70. Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally
Dan Brown
#71. People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.
Paul Murray
#72. The door slammed open. Vivenna jumped, putting a hand to her chest.
Vasher walked in. 'Start reaching for that sword when you're startled,' he said. 'There's little reason to grab your shirt, unless you're planning to rip it off.
Brandon Sanderson
#73. The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.
Nicholas Carr
#74. He tried to close a hand around the precious coffee but had to jerk his fingers away, sharply enough that his wrist popped painfully. Tallow wondered if the other end of the coffee machine was slurping water out of a lake in Hell.
Warren Ellis
#75. Now, little human," the vampire said, placing a hand on my forehead. "Now, you will die. And hopefully I will see you again on the other side." Then, my eyes flickered shut, darkness pulled me under and, lying in the rain, in the cold embrace of a nameless vampire, I exited the world of the living.
Julie Kagawa
#76. He laughed, the sound so sweet to her ears because he rarely seemed to do it. "I think it's time I got you fed." He reached a hand down, palmed her ass before squeezing possessively. "Then I plan to eat you. Slowly.
Katie Reus
#77. I've learned ... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
Andy Rooney
#78. The meaning of life is to love and be loved, to find those who need a hand and offer one, and to fill the world with peace and joy.
Kirsten Osbourne
#79. Our country is always willing to lend a hand to the helpless, as long as they lend us a hand when we need to fill up our gas tanks.
Thor Benson
#80. I put a hand over my heart. That guy. He can be the sweetest thing when he's not killing demons and shit.
Darynda Jones
#81. She put a hand up to her scars, whispering, Your love comes with a heavy price tag.
Cambria Hebert
#82. You're a vampire?"
Shanna's eyes widened. "No. I'm the same as I ever was."
"Oh, thank God." Caitlyn pressed a hand to her chest and collapsed onto the chair. "You scared me to death."
Shanna smiled. "Relax, sweetie. I'm not a vampire." She patted her arm. "My husband is.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#83. Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#84. You know," Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, "you have an attitude problem."
"I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.
Jacquelyn Frank
#85. Skulduggery walked over slowly. He had picked up his severed arm and was now holding it out to her.
"Here," he said. "Let me give you a hand.
Derek Landy
#86. What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#87. Why," he asked. "Why did you save her?"
She dragged a hand through her hair. [ ... ]
"Because that golden-haired witch, Asterin ... ," Aelin said. "She screamed Manon's name the way I screamed yours.
Sarah J. Maas
#88. Sam ran a hand over his low cut dark hair. "You are kind of a buzzkill. And current circumstances do not call for a buzzkill," he explained.
L. Taylor
#89. You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
Frans De Waal
#90. To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Maria Montessori
#91. One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Edward Verrall Lucas
#92. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#93. He stroked a hand across my shoulders. "You know, I've never seen this agressively intellectual side of you before. It's rather disturbing and yet somehow a little sexy."
Which is pretty much how we define our relationship", I said.
Molly Harper
#94. VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII.
Charles Dickens
#95. If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.
Robert Walser
#96. Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.
Nora Roberts
#97. That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
Frank O'Hara
#98. Why should you want to help him?" "Your brother Jon asked it of me. And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned. The
George R R Martin
#99. My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#100. I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good ... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.
Gabi Hollows
