Handful Quotes
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.
Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.
My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.
A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.
America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.
You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.
I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.
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.
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
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.
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.
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.
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.
I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.
I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.
In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.
There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.
