Boastings Quotes & Sayings

A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child. — Taylor Mali

Your blessings far outnumber your bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman. — Mary Doria Russell

I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better. — Alfonso Cuaron

Who is all-powerful should fear everything. — Pierre Corneille

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet. — Anthony Burgess

When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something. — Ryan Sheckler

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams. — Charles Spurgeon

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create. — Steven Rattner

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables. — Kevin D. Williamson

The mind was a trap
it was a cage that slammed down over you. — Peter Straub

A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings
in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help
in flying flags and singing songs
and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country. — Samuel Smiles

In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me. — Maajid Nawaz

If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster. — Lewis Black