Equivocating Quotes

#1. You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

John Mulaney

#2. When she holds that thought up to the light and sees how pathetic it is, how cravenly equivocating, she sinks into black depression. From

M.R. Carey

#3. So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Arundhati Roy

#4. Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

David Harsanyi

#5. ... he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#6. The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Daniel Quinn

#7. Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition. William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)

Alan Bennett

#8. I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being
very good

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#9. I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.

Najib Razak

#10. Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Todd Burpo

#11. Demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.

Charles Stross

#12. If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#13. The heart
the heart
the heart
how it thrives on hate.

Hilda Doolittle

#14. Put simply, the link between creativity and dishonesty seems related to the ability to tell ourselves stories about how we are doing the right thing, even when we are not. The more creative we are, the more we are able to come up with good stories that help us justify our selfish interests.

Dan Ariely