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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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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
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I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.
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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
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We will do business with the Chinese - but we will not hand our territory over to anybody!
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.
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I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.
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We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.
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.