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To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
— Pearl S. Buck
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
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.
— Richard Masur
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
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
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
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.
— Langston Hughes
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
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
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 comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.
— Harold Ramis
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
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
And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades!
— David Mitchell
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
— Gloria Steinem
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
of shadow I have brought back to you:
this decay, this hope, this mouth-
ful of dirt, this poetry. — Margaret Atwood
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
— William C. Bryant
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
A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
— Charles Dance
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
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
— Tennessee Williams
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
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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
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
the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.
— Gary Keller
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'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
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
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
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
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
Nelly as a handful of hell-on-earth
— Jennifer Bernard
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
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