Hubristically Def Quotes & Sayings

Difficult situations breed astonishing results. — Jeffrey Veen

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do. — Rachel Corrie

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written. — Tadeusz Konwicki

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself. — William Howard Taft

I am all for the short and merry life. — Edward FitzGerald

Being financially secure is truly a life-enhancer; it sweetly oils the wheels of life. But remember: to talk of money, the excess of it or the lack of it, is vulgar to the extreme. One either boasts or whines, and neither makes for good conversation. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies. — Jean Chatzky

But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it. — Claire LaZebnik

Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those. — Joshua Michael Stern

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists. — Aubrey De Grey

What an enormous chutzpah you possess," I told him. "What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule?" "The fact that I was able to occupy the throne," he replied. "Try and take it. — Roger Zelazny