Militating Quotes & Sayings

Nothing sets the world right like slightly melted chocolate from a fresh-baked cookie. — Julie Wetzel

There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles. — Andrew Solomon

More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway. — Matthew Morrison

I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal. — David Nevins

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage. — J.R. Moehringer

I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car. — Logan Green

Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold. — David Berlinski

I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general. — Taylor Kinney

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. — Frederick William Thomas

Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?"
"The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked.
"You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd. — Libba Bray

If he needed an answer about how much he'd changed, that provided it. He didn't want Fatima Hynes or any other nameless female with vacant eyes and an ample bosom. He didn't want anyone else, ever. He wanted Evelyn Marie Ruddick - and he'd be damned if he was going to let Neckcloth Alvington have her without a fight. And if there was one thing he knew how to do better than anyone else in London, it was how to fight dirty — Suzanne Enoch

Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. — Dick Morris

The faeries are kind of Switzerland with a big stick. — Rebecca Zanetti

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization. — Tyler Cowen