Precis Quotes

#1. Be happy to, I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.

James K. Morrow

#2. The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Jim Harrison

#3. Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

Derek Parfit

#4. Protestant-Catholic disputes have been more easily eradicated, while racial prejudice has the stubborn resilience of a weed that breaks off at the ground level, leaving the taproot intact.

Robert P. Jones

#5. As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Michelle Shocked

#6. Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

John Madden

#8. Remember to love yourself, because if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen in here?

RuPaul