Quotes for All
And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere. Erin Morgenstern
Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success. Erich von Manstein
‘Rugged individualism’ has meant all the ‘individualism’ for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking ‘supermen.’ America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration … Read more
For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse. Elyne Mitchell
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any … Read more
Give that man a Pixy Stix,\” Haddie said. \”A what?\” Lucia asked. \”Hold on.\” She left then returned a moment later with a handful of colorful straws, one of which she threw at Max like a dart. He caught it in midair. That impressed Haddie and she tossed him another, just to see if he … Read more
Then my mother shocked me. She said, \” All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too.\” [She] showed me the handful of bullets she’d had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married…) to my father. \”You have … Read more
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing. Eliphas Levi
We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area – in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they’re from, and they also represent the women of the nation or … Read more
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of … Read more