Charles Dickens - Raging Bull 1980 - The Christmas No 1 Story TV - 99 River Street 1953 - Star Trek TV - George McGavin - Jayne Mansfield - Genesis 15:2 - Matthew 5:30 - Matthew 18:8 - Billy Graham - Indira Gandhi - Kate Bush - Lord Byron - William Shakespeare - Publilius Syrus - Hands of Destiny 1954 -
I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before. But I began to consider them a very indifferent pair. Her contempt for me was so strong that it became infectious and I caught it. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
My hands. I got these small hands. I got little girl’s hands. Raging Bull 1980 starring Robert De Niro & Cathy Moriarty-Gentile & Joe Pesci & Nicholas Colasanto & Theresa Saldana & Mario Gallo & Frank Vincent & Bernie Allen & Frank Adonis et al, director Martin Scorsese
1963: The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand. The Christmas No.1 Story, BBC 2012
He put his hands on me, his fat sweaty hands. 99 River Street 1953 starring John Payne & Evelyn Keyes & Brad Dexter & Frank Faylen & Peggie Castle & Jay Adler & Jack Lambert et al, director Phil Karlson
Captain, that thing is a giant hand. Star Trek s2e2: Who Mourns For Adonais? Mr Sulu
Our hands and our feet – two parts of our body that define us as human. Dr George McGavin, Dissected: The Incredible Human Hand I, BBC 2014
Power is the first key attribute of the hand. ibid.
It’s the thumb that’s the most versatile and most important. ibid.
Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. Jayne Mansfield
His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. Genesis 15:2
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:30
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. Matthew 18:8
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. Billy Graham
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi
See the sun set in the hand of the man. Kate Bush, The Dreaming, 1982
Even to the delicacy of their hand
There was resemblance such as true blood wears. Lord Byron, Don Juan IV:45
They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet III iii 35
O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet’s down is harsh and spirit of sense
Hard as the palm of ploughman. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida I i 55
What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red. William Shakespeare, Macbeth II ii
Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Show’d like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece l393
God looks at pure, not full, hands. Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Dr Ranald calls them simple analytical deductions concerning each individual as revealed in the hand … This is a simple scientific study. Hands of Destiny, office manager, 1954
You should find enough clues to your own personality and to those of the people you meet. ibid.