A Quote by George McGovern

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

George McGovern

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Bashfulness Handicap Most Painful Presence Serious Small Strangers

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George McGovern
American - Politician
July 19, 1922 - October 21, 2012

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

James Clavell

Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

Harry Shearer

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

Gary Johnson

No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.

Heather Mac Donald

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Bill Moyers

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

Malcolm Gladwell

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

Sammy Davis, Jr.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Thomas Harris

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Aubrey de Grey

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

Walter Cronkite

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

M. Scott Peck

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.

Henry Mackenzie

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

Karen Marie Moning

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Alan Lightman

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

Amy Poehler

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