Handing Over Quotes:

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

- Jim Bishop

topic: Daughter, Dad, Being Single, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

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

source: Ralph Waldo Trine (2007). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.127, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

topic: Being Yourself, Power, Individuality, Handing Over

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

- Michael Connelly

topic: Book, Hands, People, Handing Over

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

topic: Religious, Children, Teaching, Handing Over

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

topic: Real, Government, Iraq, Handing Over

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

topic: Iraq, People, Support, Security Forces, Handing Over

...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

topic: War, Survival, Consciousness, Handing Over

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

source: Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

topic: Men, Years, Class, Handing Over

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

topic: Cycling, Realizing, Life Is, Handing Over

Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Mean, Passion, Expression, Handing Over

And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn -- the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Responsibility, Years, Security Forces, Handing Over

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

topic: Who I Am, Over You, Memoir, Handing Over

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.29, Hamilton Books

topic: Hate, People, Nervous, Handing Over

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

topic: Book, Ipods, Next, Blind Date, Handing Over

It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.

- David Letterman

topic: June, President, Looks, Handing Over

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

source: "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

topic: Government, Data, Uranium Mining, Handing Over

No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

- Karl Donitz

source: Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.

topic: Running, Children, Cities, Handing Over

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

topic: People, Generosity, Twenties, Handing Over

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

topic: Mean, Thinking, Aggravation, Cheques, Containing

Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, God, Humorous, Lice, Handing Over

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

- Polly Toynbee

source: "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

topic: Education, Government, World, Handing Over

We have to uphold the EU's core values. These days, people are nervous and uncertain because of security threats. In this kind of atmosphere, fear and hatred are on the rise. We need to safeguard security, but we also have to be vigilant and avoid handing over all power to those who say they are here to ensure security.

- Vera Jourova

topic: People, Hatred, Atmosphere, Handing Over

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

source: Andy Stanton (2011). “You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum!”, p.22, Egmont UK

topic: Lying, Broken, Promise, Handing Over

Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Pits, Mail, Shields, Adamant, Handing Over

I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially on love with your sheets." "That the only thing you're in love with?" "Nope. Your mattress, too." Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fun, Eye, Night, Helmet, Had Fun

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

topic: Friends, Stars, Believe, Really Popular, Handing Over

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

topic: Eye, Rights, Giving, Lease, Handing Over

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

topic: Hurt, Dirty, Age, Debit, Debit Cards

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

topic: June, Hands, President, John Kerry, Handing Over

We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Source: www.wanliss.com

topic: Handing Over

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

topic: Government, Goes On, Helping, Counseling, Castro

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Running, Country, New York, Campaign Contributions, Running For Office

I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options!

- Eddie Redmayne

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Ideas, Doubt, Directors, Handing Over

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Giving, Envy, Perspective, Throttle, Handing Over