Nominalist Quotes

#1. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

Charlemagne Palestine

#3. You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

Sumantra Ghoshal

#4. It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.

Ralph Royce

#5. It was the cruelest irony that the man I despised, the man who tortured me from the front of the classroom three days a week, was the hottest fucking thing I'd ever seen.

Chanel Cleeton

#6. What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Richard Baxter

#7. When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.

Erik Weihenmayer

#8. Yes indeed,' said Miss Gibson. 'I'm starting to be very glad my last girl flounced off!' I

Jacqueline Wilson

#9. Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.

Alexei Panshin