“Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!”
Terry Pratchett book Making Money
Source: Making Money
"Role Model" (Track 9).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)
“Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!”
Terry Pratchett book Making Money
Source: Making Money
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Speaking to police officers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgjNPiq9Cw at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island (28 July 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, July
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates
“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone’ll throw you a shovel.” – Chloe Traeger”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Variant: Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
Source: Head Over Heels
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Allan Pease book The Definitive Book of Body Language
Source: The Definitive Book of Body Language
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Context: I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strongperson is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of [[love].