#handed

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#best #grace #handed #look #only

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. ↗

— Barney Frank

#automatically #being #felt #gay #i

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

#american #army #arrested #destroy #diary

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#desperate #education #feeding #handed #higher

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#administration #american #american people #ask #billions

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#first #hammer #handed #house #i

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

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#baton #bugle #conduct #corp #drum

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#kinds #left #need #pitching #relief

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#destiny #down #find #founders #government