Quotes About Handled

Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

It's an elite group. And once you're in the Hall, you're in the Hall. Up until now, I think the voting system has handled things very well. And like I said before, there are no suspicions in the Hall of Fame.

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

I held his gaze. "My mother once told me that diamonds were born of pressure, but I never understood what she meant until I met you." His brows drew together, and his voice roughened. "For true?" "Jack, your past—and how you handled it—is why we're both still breathing.

Try to schedule routine vet visits for your cats at the same time. That way, they all smell similar after being handled by clinic staff.

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

Dusty books are my one real passion. New books are like young girls--fit for nothing. A secondhand book is like a person who has traveled; it is only when a book has been handled by several persons and has become dirty that it's fit for contemplation.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

I told the Booze Brothers that I would set up a conference call with Ernest, and that if we all kept calm and worked together, the "points" (that old standby word for "problems") in question could be "handled.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

I still have to buy tonight's special--unless you're about to tell me that's already been handled, too." "Not that I'm aware of," he replied easily. "But then, I just got into town late yesterday, so I'm not fully up to speed yet." Oh, he was speedy all right. "It scares me to think what you'll know after a full twenty-four hours.

I'm telling you now. Without knowing for sure if you sent them, or why, I was left to my own discretion. If you want me to bother you with every little detail that comes up, just say so. He shrugged. But I was under the impression that you wanted me to handle shit. Murray's face reddened with bluster. I do, damn it. They were shit, Trace explained. They've been handled.

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, "Does anything trouble you, deary?

The United States, the President said, "must be a force for good." Americans focused on "good." Much of the world focused on "force," on being handled.

That treasure's been handled often, you forget, And the gilding's mostly rubbed away.

My approach to politics is very serious. It must be handled by great people with extraordinary skills and human qualities. I feel I don't have qualities of that sort.

I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

My grandfather has a whole lot of respect for Coach Carroll and the way he handled himself and the contributions he made to the 49ers organization.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

The fun had been so bland, so lightly handled, that its essential quality, its ruthlessness, had not been apparent.