Disgustable Quotes & Sayings

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud. — Indira Gandhi

Never trust a soldier who's eager to go to war. — Ramez Naam

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean. — Gore Vidal

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. — James Russell Lowell

The great flaw of all these administrative techniques is that, in the name of equality and democracy, they function as a vast "antipolitics machine", sweeping vast realms of legitimate public debate out of the public sphere and into the arms of technical, administrative committees. They stand in the way of potentially bracing and instructive debates about social policy, the meaning of intelligence, the selection of elites, the value of equity and diversity, and the purpose of economic growth and development. They are, in short, the means by which technical and administrative elites attempt to convince a skeptical public--while excluding the public from debate--that they play no favorites, take no obscure discretionary action, and have no biases but are merely taking transparent technical calculations. — James C. Scott

The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their overly disgustable cousins while consuming fewer dangerous microbes than their insufficiently disgustable cousins. — Jonathan Haidt

What pages did I write?
What bellicosity!
What words did I bite?
What ferocity!
This ink, in magnanimity, as I took,
Find me a humble name in your stale book,
This hour, from shrewdness, as I steal
My scars heal, my imaginations kneel;
These musings around your benevolent brook
Find me a humble name in your stale book,
Find me a humble name in your stale book. — Ashfaq Saraf

Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us. — Sarra Manning

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't. — Jessica Lange

I don't want you to hurt. Why would you do that? — Tarryn Fisher

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company. — Jeremy Stoppelman

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. — William Butler Yeats

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department. — Al Sharpton

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it. — Chris Wooding

You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling. — T. B. Joshua