Top 35 Compensating For Something Quotes
#1. I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.
Claire Danes
#2. He's jealous because lions are better hunters."
Monroe
"Are you compensating for something, Monroe?"
Bastian
Bethany Averie
#3. I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade
#5. Were we really born in the best possible time and place? Or is ours a random moment in infinity
just another among uncountable moments, each with its compensating pleasures and disappointments?
Christopher Ryan
#6. It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school.
Ernest K. Gann
#7. Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates
#8. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.
Chuck Palahniuk
#9. When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
Willard Wigan
#10. In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#11. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable
nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. Keep your coins, I want change.
Banksy
#13. Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.
Calamity Jane
#14. Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
Jerome K. Jerome
#15. Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase.
Christopher Herz
#16. What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling. *
Colm Toibin
#17. No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect ... if it be met with patience.
James E. Talmage
#18. John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government.
Stephen Colbert
#19. I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
Richard Dawkins
#20. The leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.
Steven B. Sample
#21. To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.
Clifford Whittingham Beers
#22. There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#23. I find that stubbornness often beats intelligence eventually. Stubbornness will beat anything eventually. That's the whole point of stubbornness.
Scott Meyer
#24. I discovered that you aren't compensating for anything with your giant house and fancy cars."
He looked down at the bulge in his groin, bringing her hand down to touch it. "You'll find out soon enough.
Cecilia London
#25. I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It's my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: 'Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.'
Virat Kohli
#26. Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.
Till Lindemann
#27. Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Jonathan Raban
#28. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.
Thomas Chalmers
#30. I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.
Willard Wigan
#31. Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.
Mark Batterson
#32. God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
Julian Barnes
#33. Vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding membership in a historic commitment.
David Brooks
#34. Kevin doesn't just wake up with that spiky bedhead look, Pudge. He works for it. He loves that hair. They leave their hair products here, Pudge, because they have duplicates at home. All these boys do. And do you know why?'
'Because they're compensating for their tiny penises?' i asked.
John Green
#35. Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.
Sri Aurobindo
