Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.”

— Charles Dickens

452. “Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

453. “Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing.”

— Henry David Thoreau

454. “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter’d by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.”

— John Locke

455. “About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

456. “In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”

— Victor Hugo

457. “That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.”

— Walt Whitman

458. “Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone’s nose because this is closer to reality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

459. “I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.”

— Ingmar Bergman

460. “You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

461. “Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

462. “There’s so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?”

— Bruce Lee

463. “In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

464. “The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.”

— Terry Pratchett

465. “Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.”

— Horace

466. “But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.”

— Herman Melville

467. “God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.”

— Max Lucado

468. “We can fall, but in the end we fall into God’s hands, and God’s hands are good hands.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

469. “I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome.”

— Edith Wharton

470. “In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

471. “Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally.”

— Dan Brown

472. “Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

473. “Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

— Bob Dylan

474. “We’re going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

475. “Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

— John Ruskin

476. “My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.”

— Bob Dylan

477. “For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

— John Milton

478. “When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.”

— John Adams

479. “Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

480. “And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”

— Simon Armitage

481. “You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.”

— Hank Aaron

482. “Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.”

— John Piper

483. “At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”

— Albert Camus

484. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

485. “Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

— Louisa May Alcott

486. “Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...”

— Orison Swett Marden

487. “The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.”

— Richard Harding Davis

488. “If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.”

— George MacDonald

489. “The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized.”

— Nelson Mandela

490. “I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

— Suzanne Collins

491. “Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.”

— Alexander Pope

492. “Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”

— Carl Sandburg

493. “Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

494. “Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.”

— Honoré de Balzac

495. “The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

496. “Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith’s transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.”

— William Wordsworth

497. “Times change so quickly that if you and I don’t keep up with the times, we’ll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we’ll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.”

— Malcolm X

498. “I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”

— John Steinbeck

499. “If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”

— Xenophanes

500. “If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

— Saint Augustine