- Nov 07, 2020
Hands Quotes
On whose hands hold wealth, power, and craft.
Hands shows up here mostly as a metaphor for control - who holds wealth, who creates it, and who is trusted with responsibility - rather than anything literal. For a related theme of doing rather than holding, see Action.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of different things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
They kind of took it out of our hands. We're still able to deal with him on an emotional level.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It's just what it is.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Christians want to be the hands and feet of Christ, we need to not judge those that are different from us.
- Firearms
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.
- Nov 07, 2020
Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.
- Embarking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If companies are able to have multiple revenue streams and have their hands in multiple pools of money, then why shouldn't the people who actually work for those brands be able to do the exact same thing?
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020