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You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. -- Julian Fellowes
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife...at the end of it you know you'll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies - but it'll be one hell of a story to tell your friends. -- D.E.M. Emrys
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. -- Harold Prince
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. -- Polly Toynbee
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. -- Ethel Waters
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. -- Jim Bishop
There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister. -- Tahj Mowry
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. -- Polly Toynbee
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. -- Kobe Bryant
Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key. -- M. Night Shyamalan
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. -- Sherrod Brown
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety. -- Dick Cavett
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one. -- John Updike
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?' -- Octavia E. Butler
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. -- Iain Duncan Smith
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. -- Michelle Malkin
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. -- Dave Van Ronk
We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. -- Dennis Cardoza
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. -- Bruce Babbitt
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Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. -- Sharon Stone
Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on. -- Mick Jones
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle. -- Eric Clapton
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge. -- Joe Jamail
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. -- Queen Latifah
We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl! -- Blake Shelton
It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. -- J. K. Rowling
It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter. -- Garry Kasparov
Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken. -- Frederick Lenz
Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken. -- Frederick Lenz
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Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house. -- Mark Hart
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? -- Gregory Maguire
I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. -- Markus Zusak
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism. -- Wendell Berry
You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules -- Kim Wilde
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need. -- Judy Blume
Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need -- Judy Blume
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. -- John Milius
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. -- Warren Ellis
Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences. -- Mike Birbiglia
There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else. -- Thomas Sowell
When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down. -- Andy Serkis
The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. -- Leslie Ludy
If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue! -- Mark Gorman
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla." -- Jim Bishop
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one. -- Preston Sturges
Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang. -- Philip K. Dick
Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down -- Bruce Feiler
You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child. -- Jeaniene Frost
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. -- Sylvia Plath
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. -- Anthony de Mello
For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!! -- Margaret Cho
My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. -- Warren Spector
The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head. -- Sandra Gulland
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. -- Honore de Balzac
Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts. -- John Daly
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. -- Tony Conrad
I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is. -- Anthony A. Williams
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. -- George Orwell
Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief? -- Amity Gaige
When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches. -- Mireille Enos
Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them." -Brandon Sanderson(Elantris) -- Brandon Sanderson
You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out. -- Jai Courtney
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power. -- Victoria Osteen
Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say. -- Lewis Carroll
Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises. -- Andy Stanton
Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're handing them. They have to take it. -- Keith Johnstone
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy) -- Walter Isaacson
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain. -- Winston Churchill
I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again. -- Tammara Webber
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it. -- Jeannette Walls
I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him. -- John Green
Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card. -- James Altucher
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... -- Alice Walker
The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him. -- Bill Parcells
People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back. -- Meghan Daum
As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God. -- Sarada Devi
They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.Not that that stopped it from happening anyway. -- Violet Cross
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people." -- Sherrod Brown
I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving. -- Rory McIlroy
Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward. -- Bill Jensen
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives. -- Stephen Covey
President Bush says now he is sticking to his plan for handing over power to the Iraqis on June 30. It's also part of his plan to hand over power to John Kerry on January 20. -- David Letterman
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient. -- George Bernard Shaw
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on. -- Garry Marshall
Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that. -- Emma Donoghue
You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things. -- Summer Glau

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