Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.”

— George R.R. Martin

353. “In your hands you hold the seeds of failure – or the potential for greatness.”

— Zig Ziglar

354. “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

355. “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

356. “The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.”

— Socrates

357. “A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.”

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Aeschylus

359. “The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

360. “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

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

— David Mitchell

362. “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

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

— C. S. Lewis

364. “The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.”

— Joseph Campbell

365. “Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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366. “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

367. “I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”

— Criss Jami

368. “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

369. “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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370. “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

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

374. “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

375. “Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”

— Stephenie Meyer

376. “It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

377. “Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.”

— Walter Scott

378. “HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.”

— Princess Diana

379. “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.”

— Saint Augustine

380. “Jah shows every man his hand, and Jah has shown me mine.”

— Bob Marley

381. “The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

— Fernando Pessoa

383. “No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.”

— Tupac Shakur

384. “Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

385. “It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.”

— W. Clement Stone

386. “He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

387. “We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that’s impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”

— Kristin Armstrong

388. “You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

389. “The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.”

— George Washington

390. “High high in the hills, high in a pine tree bed. She’s tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.”

— Ken Kesey

391. “You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”

— John Updike

392. “The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

393. “A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

394. “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

395. “A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.”

— Ernest Hemingway

396. “Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades – words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

397. “That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”

— Henry Ford

398. “People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— George MacDonald

400. “You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.”

— Booker T. Washington