Top 500 Hands Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.”

— Tennessee Williams

402. “Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

— Bell Hooks

403. “He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”

— Arundhati Roy

404. “Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.”

— Michael Scott

405. “Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

— Oswald Chambers

406. “That invisible hand of Adam Smith’s seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.”

— George Carlin

407. “Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

408. “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.”

— Edmund Burke

409. “Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.”

— Tennessee Williams

410. “At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

411. “I don’t claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”

— Mother Teresa

412. “And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.”

— Robert Fulghum

413. “As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.”

— Seneca the Younger

414. “We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

415. “The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

416. “If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”

— Xenophanes

417. “I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.”

— Billy Graham

418. “Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.”

— Mother Teresa

419. “Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.”

— Nhat Hanh

420. “Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

— Bob Dylan

421. “Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more ’gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.”

— John Burroughs

422. “Even when we think we cannot rise up, there is still hope. And sometimes we just need someone to look us in the eyes, take our hand, and say, ‘you can do it now!’”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

423. “Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

— John Ruskin

424. “Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

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425. “Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”

— Hippocrates

426. “We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”

— Marcel Proust

427. “I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

428. “I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”

— William Blake

429. “Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.”

— Joan of Arc

430. “If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power.”

— Carl Sagan

431. “God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.”

— Khalil Gibran

432. “The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”

— H. G. Wells

433. “When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

434. “Good and evil go hand in hand, you can’t separate them...”

— Marilyn Manson

435. “When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.”

— W. C. Fields

436. “Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

437. “Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

438. “Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”

— Helen Keller

439. “I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats

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440. “How many people have never raised their hand before?”

— Steve Martin

441. “Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.”

— Joan Rivers

442. “For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.”

— Beatrix Potter

443. “But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.”

— John Updike

444. “No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.”

— Frederick Douglass

445. “Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!”

— John Wayne

446. “Times change so quickly that if you and I don’t keep up with the times, we’ll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we’ll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.”

— Malcolm X

447. “And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!”

— Alfred Tennyson

448. “Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

449. “What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

450. “Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”

— William Butler Yeats