Handful Quotes - Page 9

• As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Body, Ends

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• You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.

  Allan Kardec

  Feet, People, Miracle

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• Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.

  Theodor Fontane

  Clever, Heart, Gay

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• We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Air, Doors

  Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

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• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Land, Soldier, Enemy

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• Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.

  Thomas Sankara

  Fighting, Gun, Men

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• Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Rich, Ability

  "Gingrich using the 'Language of the Left'?". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  David Malouf

  Nature, Night, Smell

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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• Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Space, Myrtle

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, Years, Lasts

  "Review: Netflix’s Documentary ‘Tig,’ About Stand-Up Comedy Great Tig Notaro" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. July 17, 2015.

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• As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Ocean, Mind

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• Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Compassion, Overcoming

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• But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.

  Sharon Gless

  Mean, Night, People

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• It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Real, People, Dimensions

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• Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

  T. D. Jakes

  Giving, Purpose, Bread

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• I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Taste, Inspired

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• All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny, Women, Competition

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

  Robert Browning

  Justice, Coats, Sticks

  "The Lost Leader" l. 1 (1845). Refers to William Wordsworth.

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• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Government, Community

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• Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Peace, War

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

  Gillian Flynn

  Bird, Gone, Grievance

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.49, Crown

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• I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

  John Corbett

  College, Class, Play

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• To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

  Jane Jacobs

  Awe And Wonder, Water, Tree

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.65, Vintage

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• A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

  David McCord

  Sand, Anthology, Universe

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