Top 100 Your Hand Quotes
#1. To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power.
Noah Gordon
#2. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Carl Sandburg
#3. Willy: I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he?
Ben: What are you building? Lay your hand on it. where is it?
Willy [hesitantly]: That's true, Linda, there's nothing.
Arthur Miller
#4. If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
Charles Dickens
#5. When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul
#6. Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don't waste this breath, if your heart isn't crazy, since "the rest of your life" won't last forever.
Omar Khayyam
#7. Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#8. The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought.
Andrew Hunt
#9. I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
#10. I just ... knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.
Lilith Saintcrow
#11. Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.
Tim Allen
#12. I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.
Ian McEwan
#13. You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick
#14. When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.
Stephen King
#15. You act like you're invincible, but I know deep down you want someone to hold your hand and buy you flowers and look you in the eye and tell you you're his soul mate. You want someone who will love every piece of you, even the pieces you can't love yourself.
Amy Reed
#16. You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
Terry Pratchett
#17. Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.
Sylvia Browne
#18. Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. Open your heart, fling your hopes high and set your dreams aloft. I am here to hold your hand.
Maya Angelou
#20. Its true that love doesn't come easily.
Its equally hard to just let it go.
Ironically, its just not in your hand.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#21. If I'm dead right now, I know it was at your hand. No one else in heaven or hell had power over me. Please don't cry, I was dead before I met you, I was born the day you loved me, and my love for you will keep me alive.. Forever.
Unknown
#22. L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan
#23. What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?
Paul Newman
#24. There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.
Assata Shakur
#26. The universe is a mirror; however you look at it, it will look back to you exactly the same way. So extend your hand with love. The universe will hug you with a loving heart.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
#28. Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.
Madonna Ciccone
#29. If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?'
Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight.
'You have your answer, Little Thief.
Megan Whalen Turner
#31. How strange, that when you are away, I reach for my cell phone's buzz as if it were your hand. Each shiver in my pocket, a way to find you.
Sarah Kay
#33. You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you
Kenneth Eade
#34. A Conceit
Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.
Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.
For me
Give me your hand.
Maya Angelou
#35. You've gone and sewn me to this bed,
The taste of you and me,
Will never leave my lips again,
Under the blinding rain,
I wanna hold your hand so tight,
I'm gonna break my wrist,
And when the vultures sing tonight,
I'm gonna join right in.
Pierce The Veil
#36. ...holding your hand out and making a gesture that, in the surreal parrallel universe of the classroom would suggest that instruction, but anywhere else would be taken for a drunkard's poorly achieved impression of an epileptic spider failing to negotiate a hairpin bend.
Phil Beadle
#37. You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?
Drake
#38. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course,
Ray Bradbury
#39. Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.
Isabel Yosito
#40. Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
Frank Herbert
#41. Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.
Bob Proctor
#42. {5:11} And I will destroy the cities of your land, and I will pull down all your fortifications, and I will take away evil-doing from your hand, and there will be no divinations among you. {5:12} And I
The Biblescript
#43. I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
Edwidge Danticat
#44. You don't need to use your hand to Push," Gemmel grumbled at him. "Wastes time.
Brandon Sanderson
#45. 7 i Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you j preserve my life; you k stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your l right hand delivers me. 8 The LORD will m fulfill his purpose for me;
Anonymous
#46. I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?
James Joyce
#47. To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.
Emily Dickinson
#48. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore
#49. Tess, I learned somethin' early about you. You are the only woman I know who doesn't need words. Everything you do speaks for you and it never lies. Just your hand on me, babe, said it all.
Kristen Ashley
#50. I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you are dropping something so you turn around and check the ground and shit but nothing, but maybe something, but always maybe something.
Sam Pink
#51. Rose: You're crazy.
Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.
James Cameron
#52. It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.
Mae West
#53. Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.
Tony Danza
#54. Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?
Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.
There you go . . . That was easy!
Vera Nazarian
#55. Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#56. He had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.
Alice Hoffman
#57. Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
Ruskin Bond
#58. Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. I didn't know you could break your finger just hanging up clothes. God Almighty, you situate your hand wrong between a blouse and a clothespin and everything suddenly changes. What a stupid life this is." "Did
Howard Norman
#60. It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.
David Kynaston
#61. My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.
Rebecca West
#62. I tell you, truth is, at this moment, here
burning outward through our skins.
Eternity streams through my body:
touch it with your hand and see.
Till the walls of the tunnel cave in
and the black river walks on our faces.
Adrienne Rich
#63. I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. I remember when you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said "who knows the valley song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I watched you going home everyday. Everyday
Suzanne Collins
#65. You couldn't care about me. if you could hold me in your hand, me, you would be disgusted. You would throw me to the ground and grind me under your foot.
Stephenie Meyer
#66. It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
Mark Twain
#67. Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard
#68. They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
Lorrie Moore
#69. Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.
Diane Adams
#70. Alright then, let's explain it this way. There are four basic kinds of Daimons or vampires; bloodsuckers, soulsuckers, energy/dreamsuckers, and slayers. (Talon)
You guys are the slayers. (Amanda)
(Hunter snorted)
What? Were you born with a remote in your hand? (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Miguel De Cervantes
#72. To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!
Paramahansa Yogananda
#73. Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.
Anne Sexton
#74. Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.
Charlotte Eriksson
#75. Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.
Baha'u'llah
#76. I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#77. Your face never looks better than when you've got a gun in your hand and money under your ass.
Karina Halle
#78. I want to be the thought that takes your mind off the road and your hand off the steering wheel.
Malak El Halabi
#79. Holding on is fine, but when your skin turns pale and begins to crack and bleed, it may be time to take a look at what's in your hand.
Susan Mrosek
#80. I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.
Coco J. Ginger
#81. This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love.
Kai Ashante Wilson
#82. Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
Dave Barry
#83. You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there.
Louise Courey Nadeau
#84. I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.
I never dared.
Julio Alexi Genao
#85. As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. "No, we can't do that." "No, that's not in the budget." "No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar." What kind of way is that to live?
Tina Fey
#86. Remembering a dream is almost as hard as catching a bird in your hand, but sometimes it's as if the bird comes and sits on your shoulder of its own free will.
Jostein Gaarder
#87. Keep only those books that will make you happy just to see them on your shelves, the ones that you really love. That includes this book, too. If you don't feel any joy when you hold it in your hand, I would rather you discard it.
Marie Kondo
#88. He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.
Jim Grimsley
#89. I don't want you to stop talking to me because I hear everything you say. And I like sleeping next to you and holding your hand. It makes my heart beat fast when I touch you. I've only ever felt that way with you, Ellie.
A Meredith Walters
#90. Life is like a trek to the mountain top. Everyone will eventually climb to the top. Later, or sooner, doesn't matter. What matters is - the person who holds your hand and prevents you from falling, the one who is always there to ease the climb for you ...
Mehek Bassi
#91. You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
Anthony Of Sourozh
#92. The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
Paul Simon
#93. There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand
Oriah Dreamer
#94. It's a vow that if I can't be anything else to you, at least I can be a weapon in your hand.
Leigh Bardugo
#95. The light in your eyes guides me, the rhythm of your heart keeps mine beating, and the touch of your hand awes me. I love you more than words could ever express, and I would die without you.
Melody Anne
#96. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.
Jimi Hendrix
#97. Ninja chicken isn't he?" You grinned at me, rolling your sleeves up."We'll see about that."
You reached into the cage. Instantly Dick was onto your hand, clawing at you, biting chunks with his beak.
"Godamn rooster!
Lucy Christopher
#98. The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.
John Burroughs
#99. But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
Sarah Dessen
#100. Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand
Mencius
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