Contemptibly Quotes

#1. The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus - the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.

Thomas Hardy

#2. Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

Daniel Horan

#3. At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

Roberta Williams

#4. And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Amy Tan

#5. Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Lawrence Summers

#6. The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

Peter Drucker

#7. I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

Janine Di Giovanni

#8. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can't type that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. Every human being has the same potential. Whatever makes you feel "I am worthless" is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought, so what could you possibly be lacking? If you have the willpower, then you can do anything.

Dalai Lama XIV

#10. I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

Chris Matakas

#11. I've come to see institutional decline like a staged disease: harder to detect but easier to cure in the early stages, easier to detect but harder to cure in the later stages. An institution can look strong on the outside but already be sick on the inside,

James C. Collins

#12. I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.

Gillian Jacobs

#13. Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS's behavior "inappropriate. " No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.

George Will

#14. The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.

Henry B. Eyring

#15. Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?

Evelyn Lau