Nimbly Wise Quotes & Sayings

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter. — Tommy Bolt

Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity. — Peter Drucker

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations. — Don DeLillo

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are. — Stanley Hauerwas

I set out for your parents' house straightaway. — J.K. Rowling

We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus. — Takeo Spikes

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations. — Bobby Cannavale

Look at what you could have won. — Jim Bowen

To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance. — Sunday Adelaja

There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler. — George MacDonald

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good. — Severinus Of Noricum

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else. — Adnan

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. — Warren Bennis