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Handful Quotes (page 106)

John Lennon quote: "When you cross the street, take my hand"
When you cross the street, take my hand John Lennon
Looking out over the water, I spotted him right away, straddling his board. He was only a dot, but I would have known him anywhere. I thought of the shape of his hands, the hollow at the base of his spine, the way my heart had never stopped skipping a beat at the sound of his voice, and I realized it was the kind of loss- because I knew now that the thing I wanted more than anything in the world not to go fully wrong could- from which I would never fully recover. And I'm not sure I ever fully... Heather King
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. "I'm a size twelve," she says. Meg Cabot
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? Tennessee Williams
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency George Washington
Oscar Wilde quote: "I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or..."
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. Oscar Wilde
Truman Capote quote: "The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow..."
The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. Truman Capote
Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly. Nov. 20, 1851 Henry David Thoreau
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose."It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow."Where do the lead?"To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere."I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall."Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her. Haruki Murakami
Booker T. Washington quote: "In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet..."
In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. Booker T. Washington
Kinky Friedman quote: "If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end..."
If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm. Kinky Friedman
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities. Thucydides
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow. In Flanders fields. John McCrae
A long time back, she thought, I dreamed a dream, and was enjoying it so much when someone wakened me, and that day I was born. And now? Now, let me see...She cast her mind back. Where was I? she thought. Ninety years...how to take up the thread and the pattern of that lost dream again? She put out a small hand. There...yes, that was it. She smiled. Deeper in the warm snow hill she turned her head upon her pillow. That was better. Now, yes, now she saw it shaping in her mind quietly, and with... Ray Bradbury
Albert Speer quote: "One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on..."
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder. Albert Speer

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