Top 37 Hedged Quotes
#1. Are you educated in the art of medicine?" Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. "A bit," I hedged.
Lisa T Bergren
#2. To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
Ameen Rihani
#3. Does six strike you as a good number?" I didn't know what he was getting at. "Six isn't exactly a lucky number," I hedged. "If I were looking for a good number I'd have to go up to seven." I shrugged. "Or down to three.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity left and was nothing but a coil of hatreds consuming themselves in futility. We had already hedged her power, with the help of the fairies.
Jo Walton
#5. All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.
K.W. Jeter
#6. Like... other than wanting in her pants?" "Just met her," I hedged. "When the fuck has that ever mattered? It is or it ain't. Don't need a fuckin' year to suss out a connection. That shit takes minutes.
Jessica Gadziala
#7. The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Anne Rice
#8. The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.
Ross Douthat
#9. I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically
I should say, fully
hedged.
Alan Greenspan
#10. Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.
Isaac Asimov
#11. No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.
Shawn Michael Severud
#13. Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.
Dianne Feinstein
#14. The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
Emma Goldman
#15. Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.
William Poundstone
#16. But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.
Rene Girard
#17. If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.
John Naisbitt
#18. So are the stories true?" asked Hunter. "Depends," Becca hedged. "What have you heard?"
"That you knocked two seniors on their asses on the soccer field, then flipped off the coach."
"Absolutely true," said Becca, deadpan.
Brigid Kemmerer
#19. For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone:
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.
Christina Rossetti
#20. A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
Niall Ferguson
#22. I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'
Paul Singer
#23. I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
Carlos Ponce
#24. Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he'd loved her. And then when he'd stopped, it wasn't really his fault.
Sarina Bowen
#25. She likes the calm before the day begins, this sensation that everyone she loves is sleeping nearby. It's so much easier to love them when they're asleep, after all. When
Nick Alexander
#26. Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.
Joyce Meyer
#28. I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
John Grisham
#29. Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
Karen Kijewski
#30. If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.
Rob Lowe
#31. I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.
Tom Hodgkinson
#32. I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.
Anita Sarkeesian
#33. Last night I was stupid. I was still a little bit scared, but I'm not now. I'm over it and I want, I want... I want you!
S.J. McCoy
#34. You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.
Richard Bach
#35. One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.
Paul Dano
#36. I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.
Chris O'Donnell
#37. I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
Tom Scholz
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