Quibbling Quotes

#1. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#2. We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Robin Hobb

#3. Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

Johannes Kepler

#4. Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

Gichin Funakoshi

#5. Life is beautiful
only if the eyes of the heart are beautiful
It looks almost catastrophic via the mind
Measuring, quibbling and boasting
Let the heart control the mind
and we are off to the next Galaxy
both inward and outward.

Gabriel Iqbal

#6. I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'

Vicki Lawrence

#7. I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

Jessica Hahn

#8. Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

Paul Theroux

#9. The imagined Internet is so much better than the real one.

Edan Lepucki

#10. - Shush sweet baby, I said, so tired, and mixed her gripe water with whiskey and dill weed, but it did no good, so I seen now why lullabies was all about cradles falling from trees, oh dear, when the wind blows, down will come baby, whoops too bad, but at least it's quiet.

Kate Manning

#11. To be everywhere; is to nowhere.

Seneca.

#12. The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#13. If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.

Roma Downey

#14. We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

Yoko Ono

#15. Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Socrates

#16. We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.

Carl Jung

#17. Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Ideology follows the money."
"Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Lawrence Samuels

#19. Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love.

Alonzo King