Quotes About Chumps

#1. Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.

Jonathan Kellerman

#2. The Standard Pace is for chumps.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain.

Kwame Alexander

#4. Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

Iceberg Slim

#6. Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.

George Carlin

#7. Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

Edith Evans

#8. If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charley do the same. Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis." He gathered up the bills from the table. "Good night.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Gary D. Schmidt

#10. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

Adrian Rogers

#12. If the scrapes were on the front of our knees, she would put our dirty feet in the middle of her chest to clean the wounds, and we could feel her heart beating, strong as the thud of the ground when we walked, through our soles.

Jesmyn Ward

#13. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Colin Powell

#14. [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

Harry Connick Jr.

#15. The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

Ira Glass

#16. Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy ... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Nas

#17. People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Phil Klay

#18. We hastily call someone a friend.

Nabil N. Jamal

#19. He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle.

David Foster Wallace

#20. A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

Walter Mosley

#21. Jensen looked concerned.
"I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?"
He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.

Katherine Bayless