Quotes of: Hand Keyword

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Priyanka Chopra

Batty: [Deckard is hanging precariously by one hand off a girder atop a high-rise; his hand slips, but Batty snatches him by the wrist as he falls] Ah, kinship!

Blade Runner

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

Anita Baker

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

Beau Willimon

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.

Arabian

Every wise woman builds her house: but the fool plucks it down with her hands. Proverbs 14.-1

Biblical

He took her by the hand and led her out of the control room and into a little side room. There, amid a lot of sculpting paraphernalia, was her statue. The statue from the museum. The statue of Fortuna. New and gleaming. Rose gaped. 'But I never posed...

Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

If you currently travel abroad or plan to in the future, make sure you understand the cultural convention of the country that you are visiting. Particularly with regard to greetings. If someone gives you a weak hand-shake, don't grimace. If anyone ta...

What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Strict Time There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist 'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resi...

Elvis Costello

Hermione Granger: What's wrong with your hand? Harry Potter: Nothing. [Harry hides his left hand under his book and shows her his right hand] Hermione Granger: Your other hand. [grabbing his left arm from under his book] Hermione Granger: You've got ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

General: Now each battalion has a specific code-name and mission. Battalion 5, raise your hands! [all the African American members put up their hands including Chef] General: You will be the all important first defense wave, which we will call "Opera...

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

It is said you are the woman who holds all of London in the palm of her hand." "Perhaps not all of London, Your Grace, but a fortunate few have indeed felt the palm of my hand.

The Courtesan Duchess

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

Complete Poems

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Daniel Deronda

What’s wrong with being naked?” --Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston

Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

Dead to the World

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.

Firelight

I know in my life there have been breaches, but I also know that I am very good at blocking out the memories that serve me no purpose.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth