Handmaidens Quotes

#1. Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

Kofi Annan

#2. Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

Linda Howard

#3. My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#4. As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

James Lee Burke

#5. I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death's handmaidens.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Ken Danby

#7. So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

R.L. LaFevers

#9. Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Barber Conable

#10. Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

Marianne Williamson

#11. Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#12. One day can bend your life.

Mitch Albom

#13. The Good News of Jesus spread not through extravagant preachers, but through everyday people whose lives had been transformed by the power of Christ.

David Platt

#14. Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Steve Jobs

#15. We were emboldened by our ignorance.

Gary Ward

#16. When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.

Elif Safak

#17. The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.

Melanie Shankle

#19. Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.

James Joyce

#20. We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

Paul Washer

#21. Giordino ... simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?

Clive Cussler

#22. As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

William Matthews

#23. What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

Mary E. Pearson

#24. Like my entire generation, I seem to be drawn toward the Internet's fluttering promise of connections, and then repulsed by it, in equal measure. And I feel that, in the end, the Internet will win.

Anonymous

#25. I got so sick of my face and the flaws.

Linda Evangelista