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Hand Quotes
Most Famous Hand Quotes of All Time!
The hand shows up here as both a literary image and a literal gesture. One line contrasts how prose can carry poetry's weight while poetry itself struggles under too much plain writing, a small reminder that balance matters in any craft.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
- Lifestyle
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Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.
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In Afghanistan, the viceroy approach would reduce rampant fraud by focusing spending on initiatives that further the central strategy, rather than handing cash to every outstretched hand from a U.S. system bereft of institutional memory.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Elsewhere, the hand stands for wanting a role in something bigger, or for the slow patience it takes to get anything right. A more painful note recalls a hand that was never offered in childhood. See Connection quotes for more on closeness, or Help quotes on lending support.