Quotes about Hand Up

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Votes: 4

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out. Votes: 3

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward. Votes: 3

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. Votes: 3

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. Votes: 3

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you. Votes: 3

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us. Votes: 3

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up. Votes: 3

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. Votes: 3

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet. Votes: 3

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. Votes: 3

You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time. Votes: 3

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all. Votes: 3

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. Votes: 3

I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe. Votes: 3

When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it Votes: 3

When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. Votes: 3

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that. Votes: 3

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. Votes: 3

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days. Votes: 3

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end? Votes: 3

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species? Votes: 3

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway. Votes: 3

Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand up the dress of somebody who goes around calling herself something like Ms.? It's all so stupid. Votes: 3

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening. Votes: 3

Actually I'm taking her for a ride," I say slyly, inching my hand up the back of Ella's leg and she slaps the back of my head playfully. "I'm taking you for a ride in my car. And you think I'm the pervert. Votes: 3

There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die. Votes: 3

The division seems rather unfair," I remarkedYou have doneall the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones getsthe credit, pray what remains for you?""For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains thecocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up forit." Votes: 3

I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us. Votes: 3

No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will. Votes: 3

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed. Votes: 2

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. Votes: 2

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. Votes: 2

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. Votes: 2

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. Votes: 2

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. Votes: 2

I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand. Votes: 2

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it. Votes: 2

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. Votes: 2

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. Votes: 2

Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down. Votes: 2

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere. Votes: 2

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK? Votes: 2

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives. Votes: 2

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. Votes: 2

I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out. Votes: 2

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family. Votes: 2

I grew up listening to Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. Scottish music cast a huge influence on me. Votes: 2

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. Votes: 2

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. Votes: 2

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star. Votes: 0

The invisible hand never picks up the check. Votes: 0

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Votes: 0

Wimps go up to rebound with one hand, not two. Votes: 0

Wherever the Legionary’s hand and soul show up, a garden appears. Votes: 0

I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand. Votes: 0

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. Votes: 0

I don't cry when I lose. There's always a new hand coming up. Votes: 0

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. Votes: 0

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself. Votes: 0

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand. Votes: 0

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. Votes: 0

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky. Votes: 0

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first Votes: 0

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints. Votes: 0

Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat. Votes: 0

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night. Votes: 0

Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Votes: 0

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta Votes: 0

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence. Votes: 0

Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star. Votes: 0

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? Votes: 0

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day. Votes: 0

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try! Votes: 0

Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling. Votes: 0

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early. Votes: 0

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. Votes: 0

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth. Votes: 0

Iko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know. Votes: 0

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. Votes: 0

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand Votes: 0

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously? Votes: 0

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender. Votes: 0

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up? Votes: 0

And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed. Votes: 0

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give. Votes: 0

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine? Votes: 0

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. Votes: 0

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand. Votes: 0

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. Votes: 0

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand. Votes: 0

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. Votes: 0

If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand? Votes: 0

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning, and wander through the city with your hand in mine. Votes: 0

I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand. Votes: 0

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. Votes: 0

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only. Votes: 0

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. Votes: 0

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.. Votes: 0

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand. Votes: 0

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. Votes: 0

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? Votes: 0

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand. Votes: 0

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke Votes: 0

Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot. Votes: 0

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up Votes: 0

Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I? Votes: 0

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.". Votes: 0

Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot. Votes: 0

I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. Votes: 0

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. Votes: 0

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day. Votes: 0

Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. Votes: 0

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you. Votes: 0

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath. Votes: 0

I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is. Votes: 0

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. Votes: 0

it is night- which remind us-life means to have someone beside you - when you wake up at late night and your hand touch them Votes: 0

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other. Votes: 0

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you. Votes: 0

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd…but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand. Votes: 0

I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden... with sword in my hand. Votes: 0

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand. Votes: 0

I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up. Votes: 0

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing. Votes: 0

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and"” Votes: 0

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out. Votes: 0

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all. Votes: 0

George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17 Votes: 0

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future. Votes: 0

The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up. Votes: 0

Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Votes: 0

Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand. Votes: 0

The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter's hand. "Not bad," I said. "Keep it up! Votes: 0

Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand. Votes: 0

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Votes: 0

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing. Votes: 0

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift. Votes: 0

I'm a fan of things I can get done fast! It feels awesome because it heats up in your hand, and leaves your skin tingly and clean. Votes: 0

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. Votes: 0

Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up! Votes: 0

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. Votes: 0

You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces... Votes: 0

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop. Votes: 0

Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: "”love "”friendship "”understanding "”appreciation "”tolerance "”a helping hand "”a leg up "”an answer Votes: 0

A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon... ...You'll be galloping up that hill. Votes: 0

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. Votes: 0

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years. Votes: 0

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. Votes: 0

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259 Votes: 0

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Votes: 0

I'm conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there's this really awesome restaurant I've been wanting to try out. Votes: 0

The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree. Votes: 0

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.' Votes: 0

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice. Votes: 0

The sky, I thought, is not so grand;I 'most could touch it with my hand!And reaching up my hand to try,I screamed to feel it touch the sky. Votes: 0

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand. Votes: 0

I'd shake his hand, but I think that's what's holding up his pants. Votes: -1