Jockeying Quotes

#1. I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety.

Truman Capote

#2. Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

Deborah Tannen

#3. I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

Larry King

#4. Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

Patricia Briggs

#5. Okay, why couldn't he just be drinking right now? Still, bassinet jockeying one of these pooping machines had to be better than dodging bullets.
Right?
V glanced at the matched set of milk addicts. Fine, maybe the goo-goo, gaga/Glock assessment was more of a fifty-fifty.

J.R. Ward

#6. Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

Frans De Waal

#7. For if the evidence points to anything, it's that there is no one unitary City. Or if there is, it's the sum of thousands of variations, all jockeying for the same spot. This

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Cormac McCarthy

#9. a Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes. I've

Suzanne Collins

#10. I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

#11. It's a birthday party," sniffed Mal. "And I wasn't invited.

Melissa De La Cruz

#12. If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

Ayn Rand

#13. I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Herbert A. Simon