Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)

“[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)