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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

  Anne Lamott

  Cute, Mother, Giving Up

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• Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

  Dalai Lama

  Trouble Maker, Troublemaker, Billions

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• A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

  Tony Kushner

  Uncles, Drama, Heart

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  People, Cracks, Causes

  "This Little Light of Mine". Book by Hay Mills, ch. 8, 1993.

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• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

  Charles Dance

  Romantic, Men, Landing

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• I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

  DMX

  Block, Party, Rapper

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  Barbara Bush

  Boys, Trust Me, Five

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• Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

  Alexis Arguello

  Sports, Air, People

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