Botches Quotes & Sayings

When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death. — Sun Yat-sen

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. — Jim Morrison

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff. — James Mercer

Christ's church is composed of people. These people are very much alive. We do well to view ourselves as what we are - a people. Instead of thinking in terms of static things such as buildings or institutions, we more accurately and beneficially think of Christ's body as a thriving, growing mass of humanity that loves Jesus. — Eric Carpenter

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others. — Kevin Sorbo

F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t. — Maurice Sendak

I was attracted by the curve - the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. — Oscar Niemeyer

Bold botches are to be cherished. — Tom Peters

My culture may be different from yours, but that should not be a reason for you to sneer at it. If a bunch of us appreciate it, then there must be something special to be learned by everyone, even you a stranger. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation. — Stephanie Cutter

Sometimes what the heart wants,
The mind cannot abide. — Stephen McDonough

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. — Lewis Mumford

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. — Ayah Bdeir

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. — Benjamin Disraeli

A human hires a hit man to kill his cousin for money, boring. That same hit man botches the job twice, funny. Then the desperate hit man sends a ghoul after the girl to finish things up, my curiosity's piqued. That same ghoul ends up with his head cut off by a mysterious redhead ... Ah. Now I'm interested. — Jeaniene Frost

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. — William Cowper

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience. — Henry David Thoreau

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. — Herman Melville

Maybe I am becoming a hermit,
opening the door for only
a few special animals?
Maybe my skull is too crowded
and it has no opening through which
to feed it soup? — Anne Sexton

When one of my teammates botches a shot, the coach tells him to stop being a girl. I wish I could tell him that I was a girl two days ago, and two days before that. Nothing is different. A shot is a shot. — David Levithan

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain