Handy Quotes - Page 7

• A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Real, Thinking, Political

  Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.56, Penguin

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Cat, Coal, Boots

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.41

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• It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Copying, Literature, Scripts

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• The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

  Charles Ives

  Doe, Use, Degenerates

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

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• I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Buttons, Looks

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• I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Believe, Knowledge, Half

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

  Steve Sailer

  Racism, Eras, Logical

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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• You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Thinking, Animal

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• Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Kings, Struggle, Humble

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• Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

  Edward Abbey

  Lakes, Hands, Sea

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.

  Paul Laseau

  Space, Perspective, Sketching

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• Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Money, Caught, Millions

  "Rhodes, The Race for Africa". Book by Antony Thomas, 1996.

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• So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: "Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.

  Vladimir Posner

  Perseverance, Mean, President

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• An example would be handy right about now

  Brian Marick

  Example, Would Be

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• In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  World, Peculiar, Strange

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• I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

  Gloria Estefan

  College, Records, Diplomats

  "Wake Up with Whoopi", October 13, 2006.

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• God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

  Meher Baba

  Adversity, Men, Different

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Ducks, Knees, Jazz

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• Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter,  patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

  Jody Watley

  Laughter, Prayer, Attitude

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• MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Animal, Museums

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.148, 谷月社

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• The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

  Gayle Forman

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Aug 02, 2013

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• Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Sacrifice, Men, Dozen

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Part I "The Prison Industry", Chapter 1 "Arrest", p. 17), 1974.

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• When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

  David Sedaris

  Teacher, Loneliness, School

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

  Chetan Bhagat

  Disappointment, Frustration, Needs

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