Handed Quotes
537 Handed quotes by 464 unique authors
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Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.
— Maggie O'Farrell
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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so…
— Charles Dickens
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I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it…
— Deb Caletti
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They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so…
— Lionel Shriver
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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that…
— Toni Morrison
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Give me the gun." Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of…
— Janet Evanovich
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If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too…
— Daniel Handler
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The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger…
— Janet Evanovich
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I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil…
— Sara Gruen
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It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of…
— Anne Lamott
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Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a…
— Tom Clancy
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Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I…
— Steve Toltz
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He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do…
— Karen Chance
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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
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Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of…
— D. J. MacHale
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He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of…
— Cassandra Clare
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In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was…
— Jodi Picoult
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So,†sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?†“Merlin’s beard, no,†said Dumbledore, smiling.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is…
— Jim Butcher
Who Wrote These Handed Quotes
464 authors contributed a total of 537 Handed Quotes, led by these top contributors: