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  • When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

    War   Years   Handy  
    "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.
  • My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on, four billion! Darn! Seven. Not even close. I need more dice."

    Funny   Real   Humor  
    "Strategic Grill Locations". 1999.
  • To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

  • The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students.

  • Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

    Source: www.readings.com.au
  • My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

    Father   Handy   Knows  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

    Class   Voice   Creative  
  • I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

  • I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

    Hate   War   Deep Thought  
    "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.
  • Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

    Bible   Girl   Children  
    Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.256, University of Georgia Press
  • Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

    Men   House   Lamps  
    Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.58, University of Chicago Press
  • Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

    Children   Men   Cases  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

  • God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

    "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.
  • An outsider's point of view is always handy.

    Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

  • I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

    George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.55, Lulu.com
  • Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. "The ceremony is over. Can you make it back to the car?" I nodded. "I'm okay now. Am I red and blotchy from crying?" "Yes," Ranger said, brushing a kiss across my forehead. "I love you anyway." "There's all kinds of love," I said. Ranger took me by the hand and led me back to the SUV. "This is the kind that doesn't call for a ring. But a condom might come in handy." "That's not love," I told him. "That's lust.

    Love You   Eye   Kissing  
  • As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

  • Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

    Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3
  • After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.

    Running   Baby   Fall  
    "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • An example would be handy right about now

  • I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain that tries to edit or criticize. That function comes in handy later, but if you let it in too early, you can trip yourself up.

    Song   Writing   Thinking  
    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

    Wise   Hands   Skills  
    Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin
  • I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

    Mom   Kicks   Handy  
    James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company
  • Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

    Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library
  • He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he was going to learn firsthand. Taking out his cellphone, he hit V, but didn't expect an answer. He guessed GPS was going to have to come in handy once again.

    Nice   Boys   Gps  
  • You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

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