Handshake Quotations

Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won't let them be diluted and softened. And I won't let them be exploited and made guilty of the sins that are being commented on in the books.' I take that really seriously.

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

He met me in my office, and he didn't give me a handshake - he gave me a hug. He was a great kid.

Here in the West, our word is our bond and a promise and a handshake mean something. This is President Bush's second nomination to replace a Western justice with one from the East Coast. I think we need more Western common sense and ethics on the Supreme Court, not less.

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

You know how it is in Hollywood, everybody kisses everybody. It's a handshake in Ireland. And a kind of tentativeness. Except when it's mothers and small children." ()

To Zeal, an honest handshake was worth everything. If Zeal told you something and he shook on it with you, it was a deal.

We've worked with the sheriff's department for 60 years. It's always been a verbal handshake agreement, but now it's in writing.

We kind of overuse the words 'good kid,' but he really was the young man you wanted the kids to act like and emulate. He always had a smile on his face and a handshake for everybody that came by.

I've proven I can win on Nantucket. Money can only buy newspaper ads and TV time. It's not the same as a handshake and having someone ask for your vote.

The most important things in those first few seconds are, basically, a firm handshake and a smile, good eye contact and really paying attention.

They offered me a handshake of ?10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.

There will be a handshake at some point, and that's about it.

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.

That is very important. The weak, horrible, wet fish handshake is a problem. That gives a lot away.

A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having them in the long run because they not men of their word. We want people who are loyal, stand-up people and men of their word.

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

I never thought that someone who had achieved what Keith has achieved since we first met would find the time to remember a simple handshake promise.

The handshake with Israel, which Pakistan believes can help the Palestinians, started because of Pakistani interests alone. No foreign forces were at work here. Pakistan and Israel have held secret talks for over a decade.

The first byword is that lending to family and friends on a handshake is probably one of the most speculative investments you'll ever make.

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast