Quotes by Hands truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what? Elizabeth McCracken kissingdreamhands One of the reasons that people, many people, many environmentalists are critical of President [Barack] Obama's policies towards global warming is on the one hand he says the right things and he says he's committed to trying to reduce our current emissions. Elizabeth Kolbert tryinghandspeople She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. Elizabeth Gaskell ivorylighthands And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. Elizabeth Barrett Browning lilieswhitehands American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay dictatorpresidenthands To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands. Elizabeth Moon hands I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand. Elizabeth Strout writinghandsthinking Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage. Elizabeth Zimmermann knittingaveragehands I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she must do no more than hold out her hand, and the finch lands on her finger and does not fly. You scarcely dare to move. It rests on your hand whole and free, foolishly trusting and infinitely courageous. It will never be more beautiful. Elizabeth Wein beautifulhandsmoving Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. Elizabeth von Arnim guestsfriendshiphands My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance. Ella Leya keysbluehands Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor. Ella Reeve Bloor fruittoolshands I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands. Eleanor Roosevelt governmenthandspeople Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. Elizabeth Scott guynameshands I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay. Elizabeth Scott would-berememberhands I was never without a book in my hand. Elie Wiesel bookhands I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel..." I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them. He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would. "You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand. Elizabeth Scott liedyou-make-me-feelhands I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it. Ellen Barkin new-yorkhandsthinking Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own. Ellen Barkin swanslakeshands You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too. Ellen Hollman mightmenhands«145146147148149150151152153154155»
