Quotes by Hands Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you. Barbara Johnson grudgewisehands That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent. Barbara Kingsolver strongrainhands I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January. Barbara Kingsolver eyehearthands The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right. Barbara Kingsolver arroganceablehands Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands. Barbara Kingsolver moralitybrainhands she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace Barbara Kingsolver mysterygracehands He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand. Barbara Kingsolver fithandspromise A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. Barbara Kingsolver wifeearthhands The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. Barbara Kingsolver housebrainhands I held out my hand and George Mitchell said, "Like in everything else, you lead and I'll follow." And the crowd broke up, and we did a twirl or two around the dance floor. And that's like him, you know, he was there for his members, he campaigned for us, he believed in us, and he was really a good sport as well. Barbara Mikulski sportstwohands I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion. Barbara Pym dramatichandsthinking I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. Barbara Pym readingbookhands DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand. Barbara Sher focuseyehands She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life. Barbara Taylor Bradford knowingwaitinghands [On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. Barbara Walters should-havewanthands Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't. Barbara Walters piecescuttinghands Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help. Barney Frank homemeanhands A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours. Baron de Montesquieu hateanimalhands Mediocrity is a hand-rail. Baron de Montesquieu confidencemediocrityhands The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable. Baron de Montesquieu heartmighthands«4243444546474849505152»
