Afoul Quotes

#1. it runs afoul of what i call the birdshit rule. you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up

John Green

#2. To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

Michel Houellebecq

#3. Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them down. In most cases, the court performs this admirably and with great restraint.

Mike DeWine

#5. And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them.

G.R. Reader

#6. Fern showed him an organizational plan that had the name Magnum Opus, Incorporated. It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#7. And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.

William Steig

#8. Wanting something to be different will not make it so.

Scott Frost

#9. Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

Arthur C. Clarke

#10. What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

John Hubner

#11. In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

Fiona Gubelmann

#12. Standing in the shadow of the most prodigious political and fund-raising apparatus the Democratic Party had ever seen, [Biden] felt like a stranger to it, as if he'd walked into an opulent wedding where he knew no one.

Mark Halperin

#13. To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Stendhal

#14. Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.

Ron Lewis

#15. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

David Heyman

#17. She sighed and set the letter aside. Hoping for

Julie Klassen

#18. A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.

Eden Robinson

#19. When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

Tom Coburn

#20. You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

Eric Cantona