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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.
Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.
No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.
I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
Actually, I came to Mumbai from Jamshedpur in 1991 to become an actor. I began searching for work and I was all alone and absolutely empty-handed, no craft and nobody that I knew.
Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone with my exact taste in music has handed them all their old vinyl.
I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents.
My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.
I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.
I looked into the rule book, and I never seen a rule of only two-handed players can play football.
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.
At some point you've got to get to yourself and say, 'Wait a minute, I've been handed this legacy but I have to become accountable so I don't hand a lot of it on to my children.'
Extreme patience and persistence are required,
Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.
Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
I never had any forefathers. I was never handed anything on a silver platter.
Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.
I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.
« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.
Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.
I never had a single thing handed to me. I had to fight for everything I wanted, like my education.
The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role.
I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
To some extent, 'The Wall' is asking the question, 'Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it's not going to be handed to you on a plate.'
You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.
Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.
Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul.
I think it inhibits a guy's development when he's simply handed minutes and doesn't have to do anything to earn them, and thus, there's no reason to work harder or change the way you play.
We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.
I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
