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She handed Mola an apple. "This one has a wish inside it," she said matter-of-factly. "Make sure you know what you want before you take a bite. — Patrick Rothfuss

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything. — Mindy Kaling

The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed. — John Curran

We are handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them. — Seanan McGuire

Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you. — Marissa Clarke

Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. "Wish me luck," I said. "You make your own luck," he replied. — Richelle Mead

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy. — Brad Ausmus

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight. — Jerry Coleman

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages. — Jane Espenson

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself. — Amos Oz

Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess ... responsiveness. — Cherise Sinclair

Sometimes you were handed a second chance, and all you had to do was close your eyes and step into it. — Jean Oram

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. — David Hare

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy. — George W. Bush

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day. — Nick Carter

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. — Sebastian Coe

the lead Inspector told her he wanted some coffee. She handed him a five dollar bill and told him she wanted some too. Black. No sugar." Jeremy — Sophia Jackie

No empty handed man can lure a bird — Geoffrey Chaucer

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice. — John Kessel

Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand. — Rosamund Lupton

What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God. — Joel Osteen

I beat myself off 17 times in one day. That's the worst beating I've ever handed out. I was so sore that it was hard to get that last load out. — The Rev

He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture. — Charlaine Harris

Overworked, as usual. It happens to those who are particularly good at their jobs. She handed Eve a cup of tea in one of the pretty china cups. — J.D. Robb

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. — Bob Schieffer

Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way. — Brittany Hawes

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black — Joe Frazier

We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster. — Steven Gerrard

She felt like a world-class musician standing before a full auditorium and handed a kazoo. — James S.A. Corey

We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available. — Meghan Daum

Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it. — Beth Revis

Victory should never be handed to you; it should be like crawling up on the beach after war. — Denise Wallace

I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section. — Chic Murray

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — Hunter S. Thompson

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. — Ty Pennington

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I kicked your arse and handed it to you like a hat. — Suzanne M. Sabol

Hattie handed me a fresh cup of coffee. "Off you go now. Write a masterpiece that will save the world," she cackled nudging me out of the kitchen. — Kaylie Hunter

Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music — Bob Marley

Contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, — Homer

If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed. — Tadahiko Nagao

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality. — Chinua Achebe

The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting. — Alain De Boton

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse. — Buffy Andrews

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy. — Bjorn Borg

Don't expect everything to be handed to me. Just set it down wherever. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

Yes, I handed in my notice. Yes, I know Mum and Dad are not too happy about it. Yes, yes, yes to whatever it is you're going to throw at me. — Jojo Moyes

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. — Desmond Tutu

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. — William Monahan

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way. — Madeline Zima

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it." — Plutarch

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank

Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals — Phil Volatile

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. — Mike Lowell

Nothing is going to be handed to you
you have to make things happen. — Florence Griffith Joyner

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. — Mason Cooley

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. — John Cassian

We do not need a new moral order; the world desperately needs the tried and tested moral order that God handed down at Sinai. — Billy Graham

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else" — Billy Connolly

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. — John Milton

When you enter the Lions Den, it's best not to go empty-handed or you'll probably leave that way — Josh Stern

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me. — Jack Kerouac

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. — Donald Pleasence

He took his own saber by the blade and handed it to Alek, pommel first, as if offering it to a victor. — Scott Westerfeld

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. — Michael Shermer

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. — Donald McGannon

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

One of the ladies handed her a red velvet hooded cloak. Little Red Riding Hood. This big bad wolf in a leather kilt wanted to eat her all up. — Terry Spear

Some time ago, a man filled with sorrow handed me a bag filled with hope. Those stones were in that bag, — Kristen Ashley

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. — Alexa Ray Joel

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. — Anthony Trollope

They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. — Lauren Groff

I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while. — Kenneth Logan

Wow." Percy handed back the book. "Maybe Mars is different than Ares. I don't think Ares can read. — Rick Riordan

Instead I handed you a broken heart. — Lauren Layne

Your kite, milady?"
She curtsied and handed it to him. "Why, thank you, Sir Tucker. Take care, though. The fabric is wont to snag. — Karen Witemeyer

When a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle? — Walter Scott

Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed. — Anne Tyler

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say that life expectancy is higher for right-handed people than for left-handed. — Jo Nesbo

You beat a dozen armed men single-handed?" "Oh aye, sir," said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, "but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered. — Terry Pratchett

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? — Gale Norton

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree. — Frank Woolley

I am not the only parent in the history of the planet to have their asses handed to them by something they could fit in a purse. — Dawn Dais

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving. — Mike Weir

Spanking is a one handed round of applause in appreciation of a magnificent Ass. — Anonymous

In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning. — Yasunari Kawabata

I'd handed my heart over to him, a damned blood magic assassin, without even realizing it. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. — Ruth Benedict

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists. — Virginia Wade

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate. — Tom Stoppard

He used to say that life was all about a boy finding the perfect girl; he was lucky enough to have been handed his in a labor and delivery room. — Jodi Picoult

accepted the cup the servant handed him — Elizabeth Peters