Palms Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Hair, Hands, Perfect

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.338, Penguin Books India

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• You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Book, Storm, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Mary J. Blige from Jan 05, 2012

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• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  Garry Trudeau

  Spring, Divorce, Thinking

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• ...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

  Barbara Hambly

  Butterfly, Hands, Giving

  Barbara Hambly (1999). “Winterlands”, Del Rey

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• Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hands, Two Sides, Life And Death

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand from his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat against his chest. "Beatings, battles, fights. No matter how bleak the circumstance, no matter how my soul despaired ... this heart never once gave up." His voice deepened, went thick with emotion. "I've a theory as to why. Do you want to hear it?" She nodded. "This heart is yours. It's yours," he said. "It always will be.

  Tessa Dare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Kissing, Destiny, Hands

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• Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Party, Sadness

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.154, Penguin

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• I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Eye, Sunshine, Hair

  Ahdaf Soueif (1999). “In the Eye of the Sun”, p.512, A&C Black

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• I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

  Charlaine Harris

  Lines, Direct

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

  James MacArthur

  Beach, Hands, Tree

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• It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Smart, Blue

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• I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Kids, House, Tree

  Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.

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• I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

  Lee Trevino

  Use, Built

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• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  Eddie Vedder

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

  Joel Osteen

  Hands, Want, Ifs

  "Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity" by Daniel Kalder, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!

  Lech Walesa

  Real, Believe, Names

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• A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

  Neill Blomkamp

  House, Tree, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Art, Book

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• I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

  Edna O'Brien

  Children, Hair, Hands

  Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume

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• I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of mine. She lives in West Palm and I live in Miami, and when we're going back and forth to see each other, we sing: 'Oh, Baby Baby.' We sing all these 1990s songs. We're like two 14-year-old kids just having a good time.

  Kelly Rowland

  Song, Baby, Kids

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• I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Phones, Years, Numbers

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• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Wind, Tree, Bending

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• I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you're so sure this wasn't my fault, why is it that the first thought in my mind when I saw Abbadon wasn't for my fellow warriors but for you?" His other hand came up; he was holding her face, prisoned between his palms. "I know-I knew-Alec wasn't acting like himself. I knew something was wrong. But all I could think about was you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Warrior, Thinking, Blood

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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