Handful Quotes - page 2

So we keep asking, over and over, Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths - But is that an answer? (Heinrich Heine)
Mahomet was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know. View quote
Jesse Owens
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. 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. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal? View quote
Henning von Tresckow
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
I was a handful growing up. View quote
Olivia Wilde
Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity. View quote
Scott Anderson
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way. View quote
Bruno Mars
No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later. (Jim Nabors)
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 the world. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. View quote
Langston Hughes
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 how we're going to handle that task?" "Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them. View quote
John Flanagan
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. View quote
Anton Yelchin
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. View quote
Alex Cox
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. View quote
Bobby Scott
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted. View quote
Eberhard Weber
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. View quote
Kenny Wormald
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins. (Karrie Webb)
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. View quote
Lael Brainard
Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.' View quote
Max Greenfield
I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful. View quote
Mike Gordon
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. View quote
Robert McChesney