Alarmingly Large Quotes

#1. Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Daniel J. King

#2. For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

Nick Hornby

#3. Everyone wanna tweet but they don't know who to follow!

Andy Mineo

#4. The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.

Mike Medavoy

#5. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

L. Neil Smith

#6. Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Emily Greene Balch

#7. Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.

Nabil Basma

#8. Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.

Hal Elrod

#9. If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

Nathaniel Branden

#10. My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

Katy Perry

#11. an Afghan archaeologist followed the Taliban through the museum, "pleading for mercy as if begging for the lives of [his] own children."14 Such pleas were meaningless to those who felt their axes swung with God's weight behind them.

Karima Bennoune