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Quotes About Handling

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
~ RANDOLPH SILLIMAN BOURNE
Don't offend the gays and don't inflame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day of the epidemic. Inspired by the best intentions, such arguments paved the road toward the destination good intentions inevitably lead.
~ Randy Shilts
We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
~ Tamsin Greig
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Men were far more delicate to deal with than women were, she thought to herself. Their pride made the most reasonable solutions difficult.
~ Julie Garwood
The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.
~ Karen Essex
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
~ John Milton
I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.
~ Jane Rosenthal
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
~ George Horace Lorimer
I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
~ Hayden Fry
I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)
~ Frank Lampard
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
~ Ken Livingstone
The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...
~ Garrett McCoy
So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.
~ David Cottrell
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
~ John Muir
I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.
~ Amit Kalantri
Definition of the Word Delicate, Since Defining Delicacy Isn't Enough for Understanding Delicacy 1. Subtle and subdued. A delicate flavor. 2. Showing fragility. Delicate crystal. 3. Requiring sensitive or careful handling. Delicate situation. 4. Characterized by subtle judgment, deftness. Delicate chess maneuvers.
~ David Foenkinos
Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.
~ David Hume
The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, involves a certain danger. Although it aims to correct our behaviour and wipe out our vices, it may—through not being handled properly—end up merely encouraging us to carry on in directions that we're already naturally inclined to follow.
~ David Hume
squeeze the clutch during a quick stop, so you can concentrate on the brakes and keep the engine from locking up the rear wheel.
~ David L. Hough
The truth is of course a difficult discipline for us. Not only do we have to discover it. We've also got to handle it in the right way. It's enough to wear you down, isn't it?
~ David Lagercrantz