Currying Quotes

#1. When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

Kay Arthur

#2. When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

Charles Koch

#3. Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.

Kenny Smith

#4. Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?"
Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir."
Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.

Rick Riordan

#5. Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.

Lee Siegel

#7. A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

Chris Pratt

#8. Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

Ken Follett

#9. It all went a bit grape-shaped.

Jason McAteer

#10. A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Bruce Lee

#11. In Fleetwood Mac I have a persona, I call myself the 'Spider Woman'. I try to imagine myself putting on a spider mask. I become very subdued and quieter, I don't move so fast., I'm in a state of suspended animation.

Stevie Nicks

#12. I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

John Wooden

#13. I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen.

Katie Holmes

#14. Most people go through life thinking God never speaks to them when in fact He's always speaking. To everyone. Always directing. Sometimes warning. Sometimes affirming. But we hear so little of what He says because our consciousness of His voice is obscured by our mental static.

Steven Furtick