Handicaps Quotes - Page 6

• My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

  Rick Hansen

  Perception, Negative, Use

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• Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement

  Fethullah Gulen

  Agreement, Tolerance, Schism

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books

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• I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

  Jack Redmond

  Kings, Golf, Wife

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• I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

  Barbara Mertz

  Beautiful, Nice, Hero

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• Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Life, Differences

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.144, Ballantine Books

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• The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Things In Life, Heard

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• The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

  Erich Fromm

  Hero, Passion, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

  Ari Fleischer

  Thinking, Race, Democrat

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

  Garrison Wynn

  Survival, Tools

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• Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

  Helen Keller

  Self, Found

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• I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

  Cammie McGovern

  Believe, Past, People

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• Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

  Coco Chanel

  Regret, People, Unhappy

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• One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

  Scott Baio

  Country, Nice, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.

  Jay Leno

  Golf, Weekend, House

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• I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

  Arthur Balfour

  Winning, Important, Done

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• In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Feminist, Overcoming, Prejudice

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• There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

  Fred Bear

  Fun, Gun, Hunting

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• Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.

  Vidkun Quisling

  Revenge, Ideas, Trends

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• I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

  Jean Renoir

  Believe, Perfection, Cinema

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

  Ken Buck

  Golf, Play, Decent

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• When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

  George McGovern

  Serious, Painful, Stranger

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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• Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

  Denis Leary

  Space, People, Evil

  Song: Asshole

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