Hubris Nemesis Quotes

#1. It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

Franz Pick

#2. My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Brian Aldiss

#3. This wasn't a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word "gaudy" sound sweet and demure by contrast.

Courtney Milan

#4. Do what you like and like what you do
It will bring success, joy and happiness to you.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Of all the organs, ' said Nehemiah Trot, 'the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue. Go to her! Talk to her!

Neil Gaiman

#6. PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

#8. We feel fighting for dominance actually shows weakness. It's much harder to hold back the wolf than to let it have free rein.

Jazz Feylynn

#9. Not kink, she'd purred into his ear, sending every nerve in his long neglected body firing. But not vanilla, either ... Zach understood now why some people were afraid of her. He was afraid of her ...

Tiffany Reisz

#10. The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

Alice Morse Earle

#11. Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Mary Midgley

#12. None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Samuel Johnson

#13. I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

Kristin Gore

#14. As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

Gavin Newsom

#15. Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

#17. Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Marilyn French