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Hands Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.
- ...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...
- Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.
- If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms…
- the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book…
- Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not…
- ("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they…
- He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
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- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf