Zigs Quotes & Sayings

When everyone zigs, zag — Stephen Anderson

I did hit him for a reason,' he said. 'What you're talking about is a justification. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. I'm just saying I did it for a reason. My own stupid reason.' I stared at him. 'So what was the reason?' He looked down and shrugged. 'Same reason I do most things. I wanted to see what would happen. — Rebecca Stead

You mean there isn't an indisputable book that is the actual Word of God? Men argue about it and make a judgment? — Ken Follett

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities. — Sheryl Sandberg

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King. — Tavis Smiley

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels. — L.M. Montgomery

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done. — Jacque Fresco

I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. — Charles Darwin

When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've broken up and we're no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that. — Junot Diaz

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first. — Alexa Von Tobel

Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind. — John F. Kerry

People have shapes.All we do and say and think and believe cuts outlines around us like a jigsaw.And sometimes, you run into a person who seems to fit right beside you in the picture.Someone who sticks out where you dent in and zigs where you zag. — Ben Stephenson

You think somebody built those towers and structures and then just left? This whole planet is a murder scene. An empty apartment with warm food on the table and all the clothes still in the closets. This is some Croatoan shit." "The — James S.A. Corey

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that. — Emmylou Harris

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. — Natalie Merchant

We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance. — Louis Navellier

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard