Handful Quotes - Page 18

• I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

  Apolo Ohno

  Dad, Crazy, Energy

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• There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.

  Tony Parsons

  Running, Beach, White

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• We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

  Dan O'Brien

  People, Major League, Bats

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• Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Children, Flower, Angel

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

  William Sharp

  Women, Apples, Sea

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912). “Selected Writings”

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• The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Czech Republic, Canada

  "Merkel Meets Netanyahu amid Tense Relations". Benjamin Netanyahu's statement during his stay in Prague, www.ipsnews.net. December 6, 2012.

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• The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense "regular," as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Men, Giving

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission."

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Responsibility, Atoms, Nuclear

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1950.

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• I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Land, Cities

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.

  Elyne Mitchell

  Horse, Snow, Blizzard

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• Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!

  Washington Irving

  Death, Regret, Spring

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

  John Taylor

  Teacher, Children, College

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• Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

  Bobby Scott

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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• I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans are in this jar, and win a prize". Aw, come on, man, let just me have some. I'll tell you what, guess how many jellybeans I want! If you guessed a handful, you are right.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Winning

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  Only a handful of people are honest when they sing. A lot of people sing about very vague things, or they'll sing about someone breaking up with them, but a lot of people don't go too deep into their past and stuff, because they don't want it to be let out. I just do it anyway.

  Ronnie Radke

  Past, People, Want

  Source: fallinginreversefansite.weebly.com

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• I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

  Tim Gunn

  Modern Family, Modern, Shows

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

  Jason Reeves

  Guitar, Play, Periods

  Source: alwaysacoustic.com

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• What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Stones

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.153, 谷月社

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• There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Strong Women, Character, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.

  Alex Jones

  Beach, Dark, Views

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Powerful, Commitment

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• I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

  Scott Walker

  Government, Empowering, Boss

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• Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Life, Artist, Giving

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

  Brad Pitt

  Few Friends, Close Friends, My Family

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

  Brian Regan

  Running, Fun, Years

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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