Handful Quotes

• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Letters, Words Love

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• The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, Water, Cold

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• I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

  Mike Tyson

  Dream, Inspirational Sports, Stars

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• A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Soldier, Argument, Oppression

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 19, 1799.

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• The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Balance, The End Of The Day, Body

  "Should You Fire Your Specialist?" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2012.

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• When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

  Leo Burnett

  Love, Success, Stars

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, People, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

  Anton Yelchin

  People, Don't Trust, Knows

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• Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

  Michael Moore

  People, Ignorant, World

  "Nicht ganz Amerika ist verrückt" by Michael Moore, www.zeit.de. November 6, 2003.

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• You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

  Bruno Mars

  Fans, Way, Picks

  "Tyler, the Creator will have to wait in line to stab me" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Fear, Dust

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

  Sergey Brin

  Country, Book, Choices

  "A Library to Last Forever". www.nytimes.com. October 08, 2009.

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• I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Expression, Personality

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• I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Crazy, Hands

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• A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

  Francine Prose

  Girl, Remarkable, Irrepressible

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• Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

  T. D. Jakes

  Giving, Purpose, Bread

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• Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.

  Theodor Fontane

  Clever, Heart, Gay

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• We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Air, Doors

  Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

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• She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

  Gillian Flynn

  Bird, Gone, Grievance

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.49, Crown

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• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Land, Soldier, Enemy

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• I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

  John Corbett

  College, Class, Play

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• You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.

  Allan Kardec

  Feet, People, Miracle

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• As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Body, Ends

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