Handicaps Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Loss, Energy

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.29, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Life, Differences

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

  Coco Chanel

  Regret, People, Unhappy

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

  Helen Keller

  Self, Found

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• Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

  Garrison Wynn

  Survival, Tools

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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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• You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Helping, Unexpected

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

  Denis Leary

  Space, People, Evil

  Song: Asshole

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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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• 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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• 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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• practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Evil, Effort, Purpose

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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