#hand

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand! ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#athlete #competitors #everyone #family #friends

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#beauty #birth #dedication #does #gift

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. ↗

— Jon Porter

#done #fired #first-hand #five #front

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#either #handle #just #know #religion

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#down #drive #ghastly #hand #hundred

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#chance #chemical #dangerous #everything #find

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#club #consideration #gain #guys #handful

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. ↗

— Quintilian

#easier #hand #many #much #one thing

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#alliance #cheap #country #else #hands

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#century #familiar #first-hand #i #i write