Hand Quotes

8515 Hand quotes by 4509 unique authors

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. — Saadi
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches… — Joseph Addison
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand. — Anne Roiphe
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh! — William Shakespeare
When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like,… — Dane Cook
The art of life is to show your hand. — E. V. Lucas
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib… — James M. Barrie
If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right… — Malcolm X
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive… — Abraham Lincoln
This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand. — Harry S. Truman
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. — Bruce Willis
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth. — Tennessee Williams
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an… — Clement of Alexandria
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone de Beauvoir
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… — Theodore Dreiser
Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times. — Doreen Virtue

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