#hands

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other. I have marveled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I would go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#comfort #dark-things #holding-hands #instinct #love

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#director #face #following #hands #happened

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#could #hands #husbands #into #men

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#consider #duck #family #hands #least

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands. ↗

— David R. Brower

#cold #grows #hands #hold #how

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#back #both #catcher #go #hands

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#hands #hold #like #long #move

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ↗

— Jane Austen

#handsomer #happens #she #sometimes #ten

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. ↗

— David Bailey

#burden #handsome #me #much #worked

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#government #had #hadn #hands-on #i