Handful Quotes

324 Handful quotes by 293 unique authors

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
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat
That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water) — D. J. MacHale
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is… — Daniel Quinn
Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but… — Frank Beddor
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at… — Samuel Johnson
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,… — Nick Hornby
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they… — Alan Moore
It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down. — Suzanne Collins
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. — Scott Westerfeld
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,… — Joseph Conrad
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in… — Jack Kerouac
And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and… — Haruki Murakami
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... — Billy Collins
Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the… — Lou Andreas-SalomÃ©
[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half… — Swami Satchidananda
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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. — Patricia McCormick
A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about… — John Flanagan
As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me,… — Rachel Caine
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful. — Jamie Lee Curtis
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… — William Golding
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… — Alice Hoffman
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. — Robert M. Pirsig

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