Hands Quotes - Page 345

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I dont know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?