Pompousity Quotes & Sayings

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression. — Albert Camus

Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot. — Emma Donoghue

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs. — Benjamin Butler

I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit. — George Washington

Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory of one's life, not by choice, but by subtraction, was frequent and disquieting. Then I grieved for him, for the lost and previous Paul. He grieved for that man too. Both our griefs were mainly private, internal, unuttered. Return was impossible, and there was only one direction open ; and so we kept our compass pointed forward. [p. 286] — Diane Ackerman

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. — George Takei

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system. — Lauren Zalaznick

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite. — Leo Tolstoy

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature. — Jorge Luis Borges