Hands Like Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
— Robin Sharma
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O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
— Robert Bolt
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I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
— Leonard Slatkin
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All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands…
— Bruce Forsyth
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
— Martial
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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
— Amy Lowell
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Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though,…
— Markus Zusak
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of…
— Salman Rushdie
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like…
— Ann Brashares
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I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like…
— Suzanne Collins
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
— Emile Zola
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Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him…
— Marie Lu
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Hands Like Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Hands Like Quotes, led by these top contributors: