Disqualifies Quotes

#1. He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.

Sam Lipsyte

#4. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such

Georges Bataille

#5. I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.

Rodney Dangerfield

#6. Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

Martin Luther

#7. It's not always about the money.

Morris Chestnut

#8. Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

#9. What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.

Ian Usher

#10. Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Lucille Ball

#11. Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

Priscilla Shirer

#12. When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#13. In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.

Julian Robertson

#14. I will be a good wife," she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.

Lois T. Henderson

#15. The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.

Philip Palmer

#16. God's word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action.

Steve Maraboli

#17. The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

Dan Groat