Ossified Quotes

#1. Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

Victor Davis Hanson

#2. The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Walter Savage Landor

#3. Be the person your dog thinks you are!

J.W. Stephens

#4. Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

Medea Benjamin

#5. Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Really? Then why is it my memories from that time are locked up tighter than a virgin in an iron maiden chastity belt that's been welded shut? I had always had a way with words.

Eve Langlais

#7. There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Stan Brakhage

#8. Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.

Wafa Sultan

#9. The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Bob Wells

#10. Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed."
"Potted and splificated?"
"Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Libba Bray

#11. There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

Richard Sherman

#12. A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

Christina Aguilera

#14. Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Mouse-brained fool

Erin Hunter

#16. Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.

Bruno Schulz

#17. We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations, imagining momentous ideas transcending their surroundings, a gifted mind somehow seeing over the detritus of old ideas and ossified tradition. But ideas are works of bricolage; they're built out of that detritus.

Steven Johnson

#18. Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are ...

Robert L. Bartley

#19. It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#20. Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.

Mel Allen

#21. Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

Laurence Olivier

#22. Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Billy Sunday

#23. My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

Tracy Austin

#24. A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Elbert Hubbard

#25. I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.

Rosa Sophia

#26. The currents of modern civilization had somehow passed it by, and as he returned to it now, fresh from the sides of England and France, Sergei Semenov saw only familiar signs of backwardness and decay.

Orlando Figes

#27. A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Samuel Johnson