Outmanoeuvered Quotes & Sayings

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. — Rand Paul

All human beings have a share of the logos, and all have roles to play in the vast design that is the world. But this is not to say that all humans are equal or that the roles they are assigned are interchangeable. Marcus, like most of his contemporaries, took it for granted that human society was hierarchical, and this is borne out by the images he uses to describe it. Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But the trunk of the tree is not to be confused with the leaves, or the hands and feet with the head. Our duty to act justly does not mean that we must treat others as our equals; it means that we must treat them as they deserve. And their deserts are determined in part by their position in the hierarchy. — Marcus Aurelius

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. — Barton Gellman

Resisting is worth doing. — Veronica Roth

She? You're not one of those people who name their cars and coffee mugs, are you? It's an inanimate object. Get over it. — Susan Ee

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect. — Christopher Titus

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love. — Ovid

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great. — Danielle Fishel

Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. — Suzanne Collins

Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.
Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do. — Rod Espinosa

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth. — Anjelica Huston

You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover. — Alan Cohen

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back. — James Baker

Moshup made this island He dragged his toe through the water and cut this land from the mainland. He went on then, with much animation, to relate a fabulous tale of giants and whales and shape-shifting spirits. I let hi speak, because I did not want to vex him, but also because I liked to listen to the story as he told it, with expression and vivid gesture. Of course, I thought it all outlandish. But ... it came to me that our story of a burning bush and a parted sea might also seem fabulous, to one not raised up knowing it was true. — Geraldine Brooks

What is true belongs to me! — Lucius Annaeus Seneca