Fobbed Quotes

#1. I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

John Hewson

#2. You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off.

Glen Duncan

#3. Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares ... or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

Tony Benn

#4. This need to know things at the level of basic experience, and the reluctance to be fobbed off by the official story or the popular rumor, was a part of the "infinite capacity for taking pains" that Thomas Carlyle once described as the constituent of genius.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

Winston Churchill

#6. If my forehead were not like a diamond, harder than flint, I would display more holy fear and a far deeper contrition of spirit. Woe

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

Amal El-Mohtar

#10. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

David Stockman

#12. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

#13. Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

Tony Harrison

#14. Elena smiled and he had to smile back, at first just a quirk of the lip, and then a full smile. She was ... Damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart ... and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn't turning away.

L.J.Smith

#15. Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Francis Bacon

#16. Everything was as it always should have been. I was in the arms of my best friend, the man I loved and the man I would spend the rest of my life with. It just didn't get any better than that.

Monica Alexander

#17. Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Andre Bazin

#18. Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

Frederick Lenz

#19. The manifest discourse, therefore, is really no more than the repressive presence of what it does not say; and this 'not-said' is a hollow that undermines from within all that is said.

Michel Foucault