Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “True love doesn’t consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.”

— O. A. Battista

302. “The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God’s gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.””

— John Piper

303. “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

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

— P.T. Barnum

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. “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

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

— Chinua Achebe

308. “He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”

— Richard Siken

309. “Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands.”

— Bob Dylan

310. “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

— Ray Bradbury

311. “Put yourself in the hands of the universe-then you will have no need for control.”

— Deepak Chopra

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

— T. S. Eliot

313. “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”

— George Washington

314. “To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you’re surprised? Say you like it? Say it’s just what you wanted? Because it’s yours- because we love you.”

— A. A. Milne

315. “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

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316. “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

317. “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

318. “One hand washes the other.”

— Seneca the Younger

319. “Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.”

— Khalil Gibran

320. “When I don’t understand something, I reach up and hold God’s hand. And we walk together in silence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

321. “Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.”

— Rumi

322. “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

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

324. “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

325. “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

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

— Shakira

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

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

— Joseph Addison

331. “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

332. “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

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

— Peter F. Drucker

334. “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

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

— Amy Tan

336. “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

337. “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

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

— Margaret Atwood

339. “Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

340. “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

341. “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

342. “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

343. “I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.”

— Annie Dillard

344. “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

345. “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

346. “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

347. “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

348. “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

349. “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

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

— Aeschylus