4,258 Quotes About Hands

Our troubled world today needs hands -- helping, giving, loving, and caring hands -- we need a lot of them, not fingers -- pointing fingers -- there are too many of them.

Love is similar to fire. Because none of us can master it. Fire burns your hands, while love deals with your heart and mind.

Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.

Their hands touched for an instant, but neither spoke. Silences were becoming more frequent and more delicious.

I will remember the feel of his hand around mine for the rest of my life.

Our hands were clasped together for ten seconds at most, but to me it felt more like thirty minutes. When she let go of my hand, I was suddenly lost.

It’s like… that big red hand of McMurphy’s is reaching into the fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dragging them blinking into the open. First one, then another, then the next. Right on down the line of Acutes, dragging them out of the fog till there they stand, all twenty of them, raising not just for watching TV, but against the Big Nurse, against her trying to send McMurphy to Disturbed, against the way she’s talked and acted and beat them down for years.

Though I shy away from friendly intimacy like hugging, but I’m fascinated by what fingers and thumbs and palms can do. Dexterity. Manipulation. The movement of our speech so often contained in the movement of our hands. Mine are birds when I speak, flapping until I ascend and reach the apex of my sentence. When I’m stressed, I move my fingers like they’re gears that power the momentum of my thoughts. Help me reach the point, I beg, as they open and fold and smack into each other.

There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.