4,258 Quotes About Hands

  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

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  • Author Nick Vujicic
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    We can't, and we should not, compare sufferings. We come together as a family of God, hand in hand. And then together coming and standing upon the promises of God, knowing that no matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, that God knows it, He is with you, He is going to pull you through.

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  • Author Paul Valéry
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    Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

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  • Author Paul Valéry
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    ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

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  • Author Richard Virenque
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    I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

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