Nonjock Quotes & Sayings

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am. — Socrates

There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you've come specifically to read them or not. — Rem Koolhaas

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own. — Ashwin Sanghi

Success does not come to a person's life by chance; you have to fight for it — Sunday Adelaja

My music is also one part of my inner process, and people also seem to connect with me on that - especially the ones who have the same questions for their own lives. — Volker Bertelmann

That you do, Tink, but you also gotta keep your eyes open or the right one is going to pass you by because you were too busy looking for the white whale. -Phil — Jay Crownover

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. — Billy Corgan

It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife. — Richard Dawkins

Ah, jeez ... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible. — Jackie Speier

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal. — Grace Napolitano

But surely they will know underneath it all I'm a good and noble person, in love with the world? Surely you get a sense of that, underneath what I'm actually saying? People must be able to smell that, underneath all the harsh words, I'm someone who still wants to own a sausage dog, and cries about Nelson Mandela. — Caitlin Moran

Wear #gratitude and life will show unto you into rhythm of synchronicity #quote — Thomas Muriuki

"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations. — Jaggi Vasudev