Handshake Quotes
81 Handshake quotes by 73 unique authors
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You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself,…
— Barack Obama
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To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick…
— Gene Hill
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Saxton smelled really good and had a handshake that was firm. "You've grown up a lot." Blay found himself flushing as he took his hand…
— J R Ward
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His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want…
— David Sedaris
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Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
— Isaac Marion
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Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
— Lisa Kleypas
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It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either.
— Rachel Vincent
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But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye,…
— Isaac Marion
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She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's…
— Maureen Johnson
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Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a…
— Henri Nouwen
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So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet…
— Frances Hardinge
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... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always.…
— Isaac Marion
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As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Blay didn’t shake the hand that was offered. He reached over, took a hold of the fighter’s face, and drew Qhuinn in for a kiss.…
— J R Ward
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The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty…
— Helen Keller
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She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.†He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions only.†“Hug me. 
— Derek Landy
Who Wrote These Handshake Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 81 Handshake Quotes, led by these top contributors: