Preposterously Quotes

#1. I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Stephen Hopkins

#2. But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

John Calvin

#3. It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.

Grayson L. Kirk

#4. Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what.

Bill Bryson

#5. Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

Lionel Shriver

#6. Like Puck I like it best when things turn out preposterously.

Marty Rubin

#7. Potter, you really are just as foolish and preposterously self-absorbed as your father.

G. Norman Lippert

#8. There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

Andrew Tobias

#9. Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#10. The greatest disability in life is having a bad attitude.

Chris Vonada

#11. I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.

Bruce Feiler

#12. Our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.

Anna Gavalda

#13. I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

Colin Quinn

#14. That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.

Linda Howard

#15. You weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you were born with an entire cutlery drawer in there!

Jessica Lemmon

#16. My heart is filled with deep gratitude to the Almighty Lord.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

#18. I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.

Tom Rush

#19. I'm loving Gateway to the Seer Realm Look Again to See Beyond the Natural

Barbie Breathitt

#20. I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

Lee Iacocca