Handicaps Quotes - Page 8

• Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Two, People, Funny Marriage

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• Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Mother, Running, Mean

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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• I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Mind

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• It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Size, Efficiency, Profit

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• My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Golf, Loving Friends, Bob

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• I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Golf

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• You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

  James Lane Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Courage, Fear, Self Esteem

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Religion, Atheism

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• The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.

  Michael Parenti

  Honesty, Hard Work, Compassion

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• A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, World, Tickets

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• When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jesus, Children, Godly

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• Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

  Josephine Tey

  Education, Women, Memorable

  "The Franchise Affair".

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