Shaking Hands Quotes

• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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• It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.

  Tone-Loc

  Smile, Fun, Hands

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

  Louis Armstrong

  Thinking, Light, Words Of Wisdom

  Song: What A Wonderful World

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, People, Joy

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  Abel Ferrara

  Movie, Hands, Actors

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

  Crane Wilbur

  Hands, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Mean Girls, Beautiful, Sports

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• When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Women, Humor

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

  Althea Gibson

  Queens, Hands, Long

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Heart, Sunshine

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• We just finished shaking hands with all of the fans. I feel very good. They are cute.

  Onew

  Cute, Hands, Fans

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• He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

  Johnny Cash

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Song: Don't Take Your Guns To Town, Album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash, 1959

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• The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do" They're really saying "I love you." I hear babies cry, I watch then grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know; And I think to myself, What a wonderful world; Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Oh yeah!

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

  Al Gore

  Hands, Ideas, People

  "Draft Gore Movement Picks Up Steam" by Bill Katovsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

  Moe Norman

  Hands, Flags, Sticks

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• I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

  Ice T

  Hands, Lines, Crosses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

  Jen Kirkman

  Hands, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Faith, Mistake, Dark

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• People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand.

  Warren Mundine

  Eye, Hands, People

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• Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Thinking, Long Ago, Hands

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• You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

  David Hockney

  Believe, Mean, Hands

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Party, Eye, Hands

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• Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Sex, Hands, Opposites

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• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  Queen Victoria

  Country, Men, Hands

  On Gladstone's last appointment as Prime Minister, in a letter to Lord Lansdowne, 12 August 1892

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