Top 500 Hands Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

302. “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.”

— William Blake

303. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Shakira

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

— Patti Smith

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

310. “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

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— T. S. Eliot

313. “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

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

— Margaret Atwood

315. “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

316. “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

317. “I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.”

— Quentin Tarantino

318. “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

319. “A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”

— Chinua Achebe

320. “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

321. “One hand washes the other.”

— Seneca the Younger

322. “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

323. “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

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

— Brennan Manning

325. “If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.”

— P.T. Barnum

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

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Bruce Lee

328. “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

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

— Amy Tan

330. “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

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

— John Wooden

332. “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

333. “So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

334. “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

335. “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

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

— Joseph Addison

337. “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

338. “We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”

— William Butler Yeats

339. “The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘W-A-T-E-R’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.”

— Helen Keller

340. “Regarding love what can you say? It’s not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It’s the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.”

— Woody Allen

341. “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

342. “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

343. “We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”

— Leo Buscaglia

344. “On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

— Audrey Hepburn

345. “I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.”

— Tori Amos

346. “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

347. “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

348. “Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.”

— Sarah Kay

349. “Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.”

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— David Mitchell