Wandering Hands Quotes

#1. With him, I didn't have to be afraid, not of what I could do intentionally or by mistake. I din't have to throw up every defence I possessed to keep my brain's wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Evelyn Waugh

#3. For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Dickens

#4. Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.

M.H. Rakib

#5. I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

Art Wolfe

#6. The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

Patrik Sinkewitz

#7. That religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people

Leo Tolstoy

#8. There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

David Sedaris

#9. Those of us who are going to live," Dinah Said, "have to start living by our own lights.

Neal Stephenson

#10. Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Rick Steves

#11. Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.

David Levithan

#12. The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

Javier Marias

#14. Comes he walking windy-ways, wandering under spruces and through canyons and across shadowy glens, hands in his pockets and head bowed as if all the weight of the world lies teetering on his slumped shoulders.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#15. My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Bob Dylan

#16. A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you.

Hilary Mantel

#17. Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

Catharine Beecher

#18. I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

Anne Michaels

#19. We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

John Calvin