Hemmed And Hawed Quotes & Sayings

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant — Albert Einstein

Alex, you have to be in there. I know you. My
heart would not be beating if you were truly gone. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark. — Mark Collett

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. — Wallace Stevens

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me. — Vincent Gallo

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration [ ... ]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour [ ... ]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist"
from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense". — Friedrich Nietzsche

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side. — Don McLean

We were, to quote the proverb,
The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something ... — David Mitchell

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing. — Ovid

Perhaps she was more like him than he'd thought: her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer's ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world. — Cornelia Funke

This is where someone who does his job competently and effectively believes that he's just an impostor; that he doesn't really know what he's doing. — Russ Harris

My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself. — Aaron Ciechanover