Parcelled Out Quotes

#1. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Well," Jenni said with a wry smile, "at least we live in Texas, where people actually own guns and hunt.

Rhiannon Frater

#3. And I could liken you to a lot of things
But I always come around
'Cause in the end I'm a sensible girl
I know the fiction of the fix

Fiona Apple

#4. This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

Djuna Barnes

#5. The room did not go quiet like something out of an old Western where the sheriff pushes open the creaking door and sashays into the saloon. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe the door needed to creak.

Harlan Coben

#6. A winner never stops trying.

Tom Landry

#7. I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Bill Gates

#8. There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

#9. Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

Grace Slick

#10. Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant

Walter Isaacson

#11. My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

Kamala Harris

#12. That was actually my motivation for creating Bigger Leaner Stronger: For many years now, I've had friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers approach me for fitness advice, and they were almost always convinced of many strange, unworkable ideas about diet and exercise.

Michael Matthews

#13. You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.

Kate Atkinson

#14. When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#15. O tyrant love, when held by you,
We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#16. How can you get tired of playing golf?

Raymond Floyd

#17. Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless.

Pfister

#18. The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

Jim Yong Kim