Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”

— Milton Friedman

252. “Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like...”

— Wayne W. Dyer

253. “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

— Douglas Adams

254. “The finger cut, to save the hand.”

— Khaled Hosseini

255. “Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

256. “Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

257. “Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.”

— T. S. Eliot

258. “The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.”

— Saint Augustine

259. “No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.”

— Lord Byron

260. “When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

261. “Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!”

— James Joyce

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262. “Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”

— D. H. Lawrence

263. “If you can’t lend a hand, then get out of the way.”

— Bob Dylan

264. “Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don’t you dare let go of my hand!”

— Andrea Gibson

265. “No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.”

— Frank Herbert

266. “At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

267. “How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?”

— Bob Dylan

268. “I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.”

— Tupac Shakur

269. “Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”

— Harper Lee

270. “We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

271. “I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!”

— Edgar Allan Poe

272. “I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hands. There is no harm in the Lord’s hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

273. “Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”

— Charles Dickens

274. “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

275. “With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.”

— Bill Gates

276. “A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That’s control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That’s abandon.”

— Carlos Castaneda

277. “When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.”

— C.G. Jung

278. “Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.”

— Robert Fulghum

279. “I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

280. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

— Voltaire

281. “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”

— Annie Dillard

282. “Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!”

— Robert A. Heinlein

283. “Break in the hands of God, He’ll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you’ll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

284. “I spend twelve hours a week – a little over 10% of my waking hours – playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.”

— Warren Buffett

285. “I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm – two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.”

— Nhat Hanh

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286. “The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.”

— Paulo Coelho

287. “A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.”

— Aristotle

288. “You get what you give, but also what you’re willing to take. The night before, I’d offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.”

— Sarah Dessen

289. “The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”

— Napoleon

290. “Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It’s something you choose to do or you don’t.”

— Mario Andretti

291. “I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.”

— Lord Byron

292. “Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

293. “To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.”

— Quentin Tarantino

294. “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

295. “I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.”

— Dwayne Johnson

296. “If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.”

— Chinua Achebe

297. “Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.”

— Bertrand Russell

298. “I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.”

— Langston Hughes

299. “The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.”

— John Burroughs

300. “There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”

— George S. Patton Jr.