Hankies Quotes & Sayings

Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains and smiling excitedly at the cameras. It just somehow didn't occur to people at the time, least of all the soldiers, that anyone would end up getting killed, despite the fact that the event had been plainly billed as a war. — Arthur Mathews

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe. — Colin Wilson

There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji. — Madhur Bhandarkar

People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important. — John C. Maxwell

You need to know, I'd go fifty-nine more. What ever it takes to let you win I'd retreat all over and all over and all over again — Colleen Hoover

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine. — Robin Quivers

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research. — Wilhelm Johannsen

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there. — Anthony Hopkins

Was I wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's Good News to you without expecting anything in return? - 2 Corinthians 11:7 — Gary Chapman

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it. — Gloria Steinem

A canny reader here may object that there's some kind of Zenoid sleight of hand going on in the above proof, and might ask why a similar hankie procedure and series couldn't be applied to the irrational numbers to quote-unquote prove that the total % of Line-space taken up by the irrationals is also 2*(Infinitesimally small symbol). The reason such a proof can't work is that, no matter how infinitely or even (Infinity to the Infinity symbol) ly many red hankies you drape, there will always be more irrational numbers than hankies. Always. Cantor proved this, too. — David Foster Wallace

I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training. — Elaine Dundy

The fancy things I like are sheets. Pots and pans. And the things I really like aren't fancy at all: old aprons and hankies. Butter wrappers from one pound blocks. Peony bushes, hardback books of poetry. And I like things less than that; the sticky remains at the bottom of the apple crisp dish. The way cats sometimes run sideways. The presence of a rainbow in a puddle of oil. Mayonaise jars. Pussy willows. Wash on a line. The tick-tock of clocks, the blue of the neon sign at the local movie house. The fact that there is a local movie house. — Elizabeth Berg

Hope makes the dream a possibility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done. — Bill Moyers

What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find? — Billy Connolly