Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.”

— William Blake

302. “I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

303. “The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas’d to the last he crops the flow’ry food, And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood.”

— Alexander Pope

304. “God’s miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree – all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.”

— Ronald Reagan

305. “The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action and, more importantly, his thinking becomes mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.”

— Bruce Lee

306. “We’ll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.”

— Lauren Oliver

307. “The only thing better than “hands-on” experience is hands-off experience – enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.”

— Thomas Sowell

308. “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

309. “Suffering will come, trouble will come – that’s part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.”

— Mother Teresa

310. “To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”

— Heraclitus

311. “When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...”

— John Keats

312. “A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

313. “You’re a song written by the hands of God.”

— Shakira

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

— Aristotle

315. “Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.”

— T. S. Eliot

316. “Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”

— Patti Smith

317. “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

318. “You see what power is holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them.”

— Amy Tan

319. “There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.”

— Henry David Thoreau

320. “If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

322. “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”

— Margaret Atwood

323. “It takes 10 hands to score a basket.”

— John Wooden

324. “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”

— Hannah Arendt

325. “How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clus-ters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.”

— Joseph Heller

326. “Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.”

— Pope John Paul II

327. “Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”

— Samuel Adams

328. “One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

329. “One hand washes the other.”

— Seneca the Younger

330. “All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”

— August Wilson

331. “And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside me. And i fall back into it.”

— Patrick Ness

332. “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.

333. “By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.”

— Swami Vivekananda

334. “There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.”

— Stephen Hawking

335. “For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

336. “To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.”

— Brennan Manning

337. “Let freedom never perish in your hands.”

— Joseph Addison

338. “I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.”

— Albert Camus

339. “I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn’t had support, I wouldn’t have been able to fulfill my dreams.”

— Lionel Messi

340. “Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, “How are you?” and no one says How aren’t you?”

— Rumi

341. “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ.”

— C. S. Lewis

342. “Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.”

— Billy Graham

343. “In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.”

— C.G. Jung

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344. “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”

— David Mitchell

345. “What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.”

— Anaïs Nin

346. “The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

347. “The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.”

— Aeschylus

348. “God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

349. “Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.”

— Matthew Arnold

350. “He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.”

— Johnny Cash

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