Alloyed Quotes

#1. In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos

#2. More than anything else in the universe, more than the power to dictate law at Taranoke, more than the knowledge of the count of stars in the sky, Baru wanted in that moment to speak the truth.

But she had no tongue for it. She had burnt all her truth away. Alloyed it into the machine

Seth Dickinson

#3. But, mind you, very few people would understand that point of view. Most people, you see, haven't got any imagination

Agatha Christie

#4. Strictly by the nature of 'Veep,' in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.

Kevin Dunn

#5. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

#6. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Jon Ronson

#7. We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

Austin O'Malley

#8. I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

Padgett Powell

#9. I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

Courtney Barnett

#10. Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#12. The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

Thomas Jefferson