Handful Quotes - Page 3

• You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

  Karrie Webb

  Winning, Years, Pops

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". www.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• The single most useful ingredient on the planet. In a pinch you can scramble them and call it dinner. But it only takes five eggs, a little milk and a handful of cheese to make a fat, sassy cheese soufflé.

  Ruth Reichl

  Sassy, Eggs, Littles

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• Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

  Val McDermid

  Fiction, Excited, Crime

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• In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

  Bryan Caplan

  Democracy, Libertarian, Modern

  "The Mirage of Libertarian Populism". econlog.econlib.org. November 12, 2006.

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• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, Giving, Perspective

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• Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

  Max Stirner

  Leadership, Purpose, Might

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

  Lee Krasner

  People, Littles, Studios

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• We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Order, People, Machines

  "To the Rural Poor: An Explanation for the Peasants of What the Social-Democrats Want (1903)". Collected Works, Volume 6, p. 366, www.marxists.org.

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• We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty.

  Anne Heywood

  Baby, Ideas, Water

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• It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, People

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.

  Bill Hicks

  Southern, Flying, Towns

  "Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2002.

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• My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dad, Men

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• At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

  Antonio Machado

  Answers, Wheels, Break

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

  Alexander Herzen

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

  Hobart Brown

  Brain

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• We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

  James Alexander Thom

  Past, Clay, Stories

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• Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Writing, Giving

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• Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.

  Steve Ballmer

  Writing, Company, Techie

  "Ballmer Kept It Super Weird At Goodbye Meeting With Microsoft" by Bill Rigby, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Views, Media, Corporations

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• The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of desperation . . . We aspired to only one thing: to sell our lives for the highest possible price.

  Mordechaj Tenenbaum

  Europe, Holocaust, Overcoming

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• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Love is a rose
  But you better not pick it.
  It only grows
  When it's on the vine.
  Handful of thorns
  And you'll know you missed it.
  You lose your love
  When you say the word MINE.

  Neil Young

  Song, Love Is, Rose

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• The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

  Alex Cox

  Real, Imagination, Stories

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

  Moss Hart

  Would Be, Lucky, Looks

  George Simon Kaufman, Moss Hart (1980). “Three Plays”, p.203, Grove Press

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