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The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. — Desiderius Erasmus

You know what I do? I steal things. Fuck 'em! I grab a handful of candy bars and six magazines and head for the gate. — George Carlin

Mankind divides itself into two classes,
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In those days, I straddled more than a handful of worlds, which is also to say I belonged wholly to none. — Suzanne Rindell

She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent. — Jill Mansell

I wonder how it is that you, you are just a handful of billion of cells. — Shinji Moon

From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs. — Alexander Pushkin

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system. — John Stossel

I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts. — Rachel Vincent

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do. — Kevin Rose

a handful of crumpled stars — Margaret Atwood

I'm good at staying on top of things that are a handful. — Jay Crownover

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times. — Kenny Wormald

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy. — Bernie Sanders

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. — Scott Walker

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? — George Eliot

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier. — Brad Pitt

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood. — Tamra Davis

I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb. — Tommy Caldwell

life slips out of hands, just like handful sand;does not matter how hard you press to protect it will anyhow flow out the hands. — Deepika Chamoli

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most. — Tim Ferriss

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem

There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly. — Pawan Mishra

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love. — Helen Steiner Rice

I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish. — Corey Taylor

Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the supermarket is a link in a food chain. — Michael Pollan

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died. — Kim Harrison

And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades! — David Mitchell

Here is a handful
of shadow I have brought back to you:
this decay, this hope, this mouth-
ful of dirt, this poetry. — Margaret Atwood

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. — Harold Ramis

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts. — Charles Dance

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. — William C. Bryant

What does barbed wire feel like when you grip it, as though it were a plate and a fork, or a handful of flowers? — Mary Oliver

I'll not leave a handful of that dark hair upon your head, if you lay a finger on me! — Charles Dickens

When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds. — Stephen Richards

So we keep asking, over and over
Until a handful of earth
Stops our mouths-
But is that an answer? — Heinrich Heine

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. — Alexander Herzen

[Sadly] the first thing we tell our young converts, the babes in Christ, is, 'Here is a handful of tracts- now get out and get busy! — A.W. Tozer

I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires. — Anderson Cooper

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. — Maurice Greene

I've only seen a handful of short clips of my U.S. Open win. I remember how I did it; I don't need to watch a video. — Angel Cabrera

For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse. — Elyne Mitchell

Still I would die tomorrow knowing I spend a handful of breathless moments with you than live a lifetime of ordinary breathing. — N.R. Hart

It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The — Henry James

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. — Patti Smith

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. — Steve Ballmer

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down. — Mary Renault

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain

Then I smiled at her, right before I grbbed a handful of copper hair and yanked her out of the chair. Screw being a better person. — Jenny Trout

One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools. — Marisha Pessl

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes. — Claire Danes

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors. — Julia Stiles

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. — Mike Tyson

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people. — Anton Yelchin

Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances. — Sam Altman

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges

I make sort-of funny videos for the Internet that are watched by a handful of people. — Katie Nolan

Success is no magic; grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there! — Israelmore Ayivor

Wolf came up with a handful of salt, and with an apologetic grimace at his cousin, he warned, I'm gonna salt you, dude. — Anonymous

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. — Jimmie Johnson

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. — Leo Burnett

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains — Hobart Brown

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb — Nana Awere Damoah

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers. — Antonio Machado

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. — Mignon McLaughlin

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game. — Alexander McQueen

That Loor's a handful, she is. - Spader (Black Water) — D.J. MacHale

but I melt until I'm a handful of hot butter dripping down his body. — Tahereh Mafi

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. — Joseph Barbera

The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth. — Hans Christian Andersen

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat

It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences. — Joel T. McGrath

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

Like a handful of nickels in a batch of bread dough this could be kneaded from place to place but never removed. — Neal Stephenson

I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko. — Jonathan Tropper

Almost every girl in the world says what they really want is a nice guy, but only handful really mean it. — Heather Havenwood

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape. — Barack Obama

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. — Joe Bradley

Nelly as a handful of hell-on-earth — Jennifer Bernard

We all eat a handful of dirt before we die, who cares if it tastes like cherries? — Thomas Siddell

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars ... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars! — Louis Untermeyer

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to. — Jemima Kirke

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. — Scott Westerfeld

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by. — Bruno Grandi

The heat tamped everything down. Aside from a handful of certifiable runners and insane cyclists, the park had been left to the birds and squirrels. — Richard Castle

So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story — Lee Trevino

If human beings weren't 'dumbable' enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful. — Jason Reeves

If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful. — Tana French

I can show you fear in a handful of dust — T. S. Eliot

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up. — Abhijit Naskar

Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers. — Wallace Stegner

If a lifetime in the end is remembered for a handful of days, this is one of them. — Charles Yu

Sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the — Lemony Snicket

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman

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. — Geezer Butler