Chivvying Quotes & Sayings

The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty. — Jacob Bronowski

And after all, everyone needs a few flaws to make them real. — Helen Simonson

If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote. — Tory Nyhaug

Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? — Hanya Yanagihara

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about ... those are always the wrong choices. — Michelle Williams

I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around. — Jennifer Johnston

They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back. — Chloe Thurlow

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That's not fair. That is not our way. — Joe Hockey

The love of Christ for his people is not based upon any worthiness within them, nor should your love toward your wife be conditioned upon her actions and your judgment as to whether or not she has earned your love. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

You're so beautiful. — Tammara Webber

Wordsworth also said that the best part of a person's life is "his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love." I — Amy Poehler

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this. — Deborah Moggach

when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency — Luc Zandvliet

You are a divine, irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind soul, and there is no other achievement, title, or role that is more meaningful than that. Your qualities and attributes and how you treat other people are the only thing about who you are that really matters. — Kimberly Giles

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning. — Alan Watts

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. — Isaac Barrow