Nobbs Waypoint Quotes & Sayings

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. — George Orwell

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. — Terence

It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them. — Kaushik Basu

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism. — Hugo Chavez

The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer. — Oscar Wilde

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other. — Abraham De Moivre

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'. — Isadora Duncan

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully. — Ciaran Hinds

If she's my mate, she won't be afraid. She's seen me shift before." ~Cole Rookman — Jane Wakely

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs. — Edgar Guest

Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition. — Brad Pitt

Hugo, we are taught to be advanced in every form from academically to socially. I think our parents fucked it up, taking that advancement for granted. They wanted us to grow up with everything and in return of that we became spoiled. — Chelsea Ballinger

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington