Lamely Quotes

#1. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.

O. Henry

#2. In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Idries Shah

#3. Hammer", I finished lamely, as he waited patiently for my thoughts to find their voice, "we have got to find better words for the things we have in our hearts."
"Words seem to be weak things," he murmured into my hair, and I could only hope our hearts would prove stronger.

Amy Lane

#4. Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. It's so dark," she said lamely.
"You want me to hold your hand?"
Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child.
"Don't talk down to me."
"Well, I could hardly talk up to you. You're too short.

Cassandra Clare

#6. He stood lamely staring out at the grief-stricken crowd like he was watching a hurricane wreak havoc outside his window. He was powerless to stop the destruction but it was his burden to watch it transpire.

Sarah Noffke

#7. A scarlet flame suffused her face. 'You are very insolent,' she said, lamely. 'I've often been told so. But I don't believe it.

Rafael Sabatini

#8. The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato

#9. You're not too tall," Dunk blurted out. "You're just right for ... " He realized what he had been about to say, and blushed furiously. "For?" said Tanselle, cocking her head inquisitively. "Puppets," he finished lamely.

Robert Silverberg

#10. I'm not stupid," I muttered lamely.
"Well, why else would you tell Alex to go anywhere? What will we do for eye candy now? Were you thinking of Nate at all? Were you thinking of me? I think you're incredibly selfish, Lila.

Sarah Alderson

#11. But that couldn't be... you don't.... That's wrong," she said lamely.

"You mean morally?" Donal looked utterly struck by the notion. "Morally wrong! Well!" He pretended to ponder and then said earnestly, "I should hope so! Honestly, Jenny-girl, moral sex! Where's the point in that?

Lilia Ford

#12. Be satisfied. Be grateful. For what you have. For what the love you received. And for what God has given you

Mitch Albom

#13. My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.

Rohit Shetty

#14. I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

Jeffrey Tate

#15. But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of the world has ceased to believe that your motives can possibly be honest.

George Orwell

#16. One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas.

Darrell Calkins

#17. People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Maybe this is another way to think about original sin - the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

Krista Tippett

#19. One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

Kate Winslet

#20. Falling in love is a beautiful wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Pliny The Elder

#22. People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.

Richelle E. Goodrich