Bugbears Quotes

#1. Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

William Gilmore Simms

#2. There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Boris Yeltsin

#3. Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols
it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

William Hazlitt

#4. I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

Johnny Vegas

#5. Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. Proprieties of place, and especially of time, are the bugbears which terrify mankind from the contemplation of the magnificent.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

Noah Feldman

#8. Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.

Peter Ackroyd

#9. Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

Robert Stephens

#10. My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Seth Gordon

#11. Does what we do in life matter so much? Or is it what we don't do that carries weight?

Elif Shafak

#12. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

Ayn Rand

#13. Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.

Brian K. Vaughan

#14. If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?

Leonard Ravenhill

#15. You know what they say about angels?" she asked.
"That they have wings and a halo?"
"No, that they are just wild women who've had the hell screwed out of them," she said with another giggle.

Carolyn Brown