Nonentities Quotes

#1. Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.

Malorie Blackman

#2. When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.

William Carlos Williams

#4. You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

Erica Jong

#5. Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. Enduring happiness was only possible with equanimity. As long as our happiness depended on circumstances, it would be as fleeting and unreliable as the events themselves.

David Michie

#10. A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Cleveland Amory

#11. He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat Buchanan.]

Bill Press

#12. In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Mary Lascelles

#13. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered.

Daphne Du Maurier

#14. A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is not trying to let sleeping dogs lie.

Mallory Ortberg

#15. Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#16. Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.

Billy Joel

#17. I'm determined to take ground and win big for the kingdom of God. I'm unapologetic about my mission to change the world for the glory of Jesus. I want to be a Joshua in my generation.

Steven Furtick

#18. Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be.

Michael Card

#19. This was what happened when perfect cracked and splintered. This was what happened when your life fell apart.

Chanel Cleeton

#20. This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Juvenal

#21. The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

Katie Chang