“ The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ”
- Abba Eban- Copy
- 3.5K
“ With the people, for the people, by the people, I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause htat's what really happens. ”
- Fannie Lou Hamer- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ”
- Fiona Macleod- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I'm on my own little quest. You get a handful of scripts each year, and you find one that's interesting to you and you want to investigate. And I've just got to keep on following that. And wherever that takes us, it takes us. And then, you know, when it is all said and done for me and I look back, I will try to define it then. ”
- Brad Pitt- Copy
- 2.9K
“ While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty. ”
- Tran Duc Luong- Copy
- 3K
“ There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. ”
- Michael Moore- Copy
- 2.6K
“ All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 51
“ The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 571
“ Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ”
- Martin H. Fischer- Copy
- 1.1K
“ All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
- 775
“ A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Give me an Army of West Point Graduates, and I'll win a battle… give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war!! ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
- 4K
“ When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. ”
- Leo Burnett- Copy
- 791
“ They seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers… call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. ”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, I've had more of a choice, and it's been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that there's another job after this one. ”
- Alfred Molina- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
- 3.9K
“ But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. ”
- William Collins- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning. ”
- Colin Baker- Copy
- 2.3K
“ If we — and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create the consciousness of others — do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 2.4K
“ When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits — all without any directing intelligence at all. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 417
“ People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied… ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 2K
“ Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity… Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. ”
- William Feather- Copy
- 1.1K
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