“ These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 164
“ Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. ”
- Catherine Drinker Bowen- Copy
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“ Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age. ”
- Kelly Miller- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Perhaps you will regard it as a pardonable vanity which induces me here to mention that I have handed the kettle to Joanna Baillie to replenish her teapot in her home at Hampstead. ”
- Henry Glassford Bell- Copy
- 557
“ The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. ”
- Donald H. McGannon- Copy
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“ Most people who are born Catholic are still Catholic, unless they've had a divorce and remarriage problem. I think the Church is just ham-handed in dealing with those people. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ The salesgirl handed her a bright little wad of cloth that could be roomily stowed in a cigarette pack. ”
- William Hamilton- Copy
- 380
“ In Maidanek, Poland, there was only one place where the children were treated kindly; at the entrance to the gas chamber each one was handed a sweet. ”
- Gideon Hausner- Copy
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“ I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. ”
- Jack Kirby- Copy
- 2K
“ Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. ”
- Kelly Millar- Copy
- 923
“ He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. ”
- Marcus Terentius Varro- Copy
- 158
“ Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
- 591
“ Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. ”
- Marlo Thomas- Copy
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“ Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward. ”
- John Mortimer- Copy
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“ Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ”
- Ruth Benedict- Copy
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“ How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. ”
- Olympia Brown- Copy
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“ The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 617
“ I come from a different situation than most people. I've been handed a different set of chips, and I've tried to find my way with it. Unfortunately, it's been in front of the public, but it's a genuine search to find the right mate. It's just that I can't quite find the right way to go because of the situation I've been handed. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings… ”
- Viola Spolin- Copy
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“ We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make — there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves… ”
- James H. Robinson- Copy
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“ Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ”
- Eva Braun- Copy
- 68
“ People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ It handed everything to a president, by way of using the military forces of this country where he would, when he would, how he would, as long as it was connected with Iraq. And that's a blotch upon this country and the Senate. ”
- Robert Byrd- Copy
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