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  • Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device. -- Bill Gates
  • Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane. -- Robert Irwin
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. -- William Blake
  • And I met your baby moms last night. We took a picture together, I hope she frames it. And I was drinking at the Palms last night. And ended up losing everything that I came with. -- Drake
  • Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked. -- Emo Philips
  • An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. -- Laurence Sterne
  • Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. -- Alistair Begg
  • No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. -- William Penn
  • The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. -- Laurence Leamer
  • But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. -- Kenneth Tynan
  • Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. -- Chinua Achebe
  • Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... -- Yasunari Kawabata
  • My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • 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
  • About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL. -- Robert Palmer
  • The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn. -- Norman Douglas
  • There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living. -- Elmore Leonard
  • That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend. -- Stephen Kendrick
  • At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. -- Albert Camus
  • If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. -- Nhat Hanh
  • I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?" -- Muhammad Ali
  • I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me. -- Veronica Roth
  • Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms? -- Phil McGraw
  • My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. -- Jesse Eisenberg
  • Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it. -- Trevor Donovan
  • My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas. -- Selenis Leyva
  • Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good. -- Tim Cahill
  • True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. -- Bayard Taylor
  • I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze. -- T.L. Parker
  • How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms? -- Cameron Conaway
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  • Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see 'em? -- J.R. Ward
  • There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. -- Charles Fort
  • Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms. -- Michael Scott
  • Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth! -- Gerald Massey
  • Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet. -- D. Antoinette Foy
  • Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows. -- Gabriela Mistral
  • Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
  • My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!" -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day. -- Swami Veda Bharati
  • I've had my past lives read, my aura tuned, my chakras aligned, my spirit guides channeled, my palms interpreted, and my kundalini awakened." -- Sera J. Beak
  • Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it. -- Tanc Sade
  • Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin. -- Alyson Noel
  • You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. -- Suzanne Collins
  • When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart. -- Daniel Tosh
  • I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation. -- Jessica Sorensen
  • He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands." -- Laura Kreitzer
  • Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization. -- Nicholas Pileggi
  • There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere. -- Carolyn Hart
  • The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain. -- Conrad Aiken
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour." -- William Blake
  • Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms. -- Vivian Jenkins
  • Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through. -- Robert M. Hayes
  • Holding my hands, kissing the palms, his smile is ecstatic, jubilant, adoring, and the song playing speaks for him, "Have you ever seen the light...the way it shines in you." -- Poppet
  • Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on. -- Rick Riordan
  • Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. -- Ellen Bass
  • To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now." -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die. -- Richard Rohr
  • Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. -- Ishmael
  • You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave -- J.R. Ward
  • As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off. -- Joseph Brodsky
  • When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "...to be my awful wedded husband... -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from our palms! We cannot hold them; they constantly run away from us! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision. -- Walt Whitman
  • One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks. -- Abeba Habtu
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