Petard Quotes

#1. Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

David A. Stewart

#2. We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Julia Child

#3. I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

Maxwell Caulfield

#4. Traitors hoist by their own petard?
or victims of the gods?
we shall never know!

Tom Stoppard

#5. Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.

Cindy Crawford

#6. I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Robbie Fowler

#7. Sometimes in the shadows the view would light up, usually when he was smoking weed, as if the contrast knob of Creation had been messed with just enough to give everything an underglow, a luminous edge, and promise that the night was about to turn epic somehow.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

John Irving

#9. Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Steven Pressfield

#10. I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

Namie Amuro

#11. We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

David Brooks

#12. Evolving increases our value, and when we know our value, we navigate toward those with whom we share a genuine interest and appreciation. The rest, in my estimation, is bondage.

Kyrian Lyndon

#13. I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

Bruce Babbitt

#14. Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

Claude Nicollier

#16. Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#17. When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

Richie Benaud

#18. The ones that win are the ones that ship.

Mark Pilgrim