Handclaps Quotes

#1. A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

James Lighthill

#2. One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena - homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.

Hannah Arendt

#4. He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#5. I was free to appreciate these former interests of mine rather than worry about not participating in them. The 100 Thing Challenge proved a handy way to get rid of stuff that was never going to fix my past or make me someone that I was not.

Dave Bruno

#6. Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Roger Ebert

#7. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potter

#8. The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it. With his long white beard and stout build, he has to know the effect of wearing a red and white anorak and how inappropriate the whole getup looks in the Mount Zion Cemetery.

Jonathan Tropper

#9. Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Randall Robinson