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
Surprising Palm quotations
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives.
But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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.
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.
Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
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.
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.
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.
That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.
Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.
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?"
Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
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.
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel.
I'll sketch it in words.
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people .
.. in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.
Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make.
They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.
Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand.
This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.