4,258 Quotes About Hands

  • Author Brendan Behan
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    A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

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  • Author Brian Belski
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    What we really need to do is see some solidification. A lot of people are sitting on their hands and people are not willing to step up to the plate just yet.

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  • Author Carrie Brownstein
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    Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

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  • Author Charles Babbage
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    A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

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  • Author Charles Baudelaire
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    Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

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  • Author Charles Bukowski
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    They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

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  • Author Charles Bukowski
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    the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

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