One Hand Quotes

449 One Hand quotes by 402 unique authors

On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what… — Joseph Heller
Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a… — Libba Bray
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story… — Thomas Ligotti
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman… — Lucille Clifton
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by… — Paulo Coelho
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands — Bob Dylan
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of… — Pope John Paul II
We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling… — Rick Riordan
While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll… — James Patterson
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other… — Jim Butcher
My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand. — Regina Doman
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their… — Milan Kundera
There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is… — Anne Enright
Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I… — James Patterson
I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this… — Audrey Niffenegger
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes
Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held… — Shannon Hale
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's… — Max Brooks
It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the… — Jeaniene Frost
Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang… — James Patterson
Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand… — Milan Kundera

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