Handing Quotes

121 Handing quotes by 112 unique authors

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability… — Dennis Cardoza
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do… — Michael Connelly
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted… — Dick Cavett
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism. — Wendell Berry
Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character… — Peter York
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy… — Nicole Mones
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption… — George Bernard Shaw
Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach… — Jeffrey Kluger
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very… — Queen Latifah
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and… — Iain Duncan Smith
Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow,… — Sharon Stone
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. — Ethel Waters
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what… — Douglas Rushkoff
Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice… — Lewis Carroll
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it… — Alice Walker
It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you… — Jeannette Walls
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd… — Douglas Coupland
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? — Gregory Maguire
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who… — David Sedaris
Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for… — Gary D. Schmidt
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however,… — Markus Zusak
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition… — George Orwell

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