Top 98 Quotes About Colby
#1. A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Frank Moore Colby
#2. There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship.
J.Z. Colby
#3. While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.
Kate M. Colby
#4. In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
Frank Moore Colby
#5. One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Frank Moore Colby
#6. The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
Bainbridge Colby
#7. Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
#8. God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.
Colby Buzzell
#9. I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
#10. Colby Jordan is one of the most fashion-forward and passionate girls I know. She gives me these young Anna Wintour vibes when I'm around her!
Theophilus London
#11. The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
William Colby
#12. When you march to the beat of your own drum, you'll always be in sync.
Colby R. Rice
#13. I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Frank Moore Colby
#14. It is not the purpose of the universe to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible. That's a mortal preoccupation, especially strong in monkey mammals, but we all feel it to one degree or another ...
J.Z. Colby
#15. When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
Frank Moore Colby
#16. The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
Frank Moore Colby
#17. Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.
Frank Moore Colby
#18. Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
#19. Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Frank Moore Colby
#20. Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
Frank Moore Colby
#21. The universe has no place for creatures who foul their nest and then set out on a journey they cannot survive.
J.Z. Colby
#22. Principal Colby puts the tiara on Margo's head.
She's surprised by the weight.
Obviously the rhinestones wouldn't be diamonds, but Margo had always assumed the tiara would be metal.
It isn't.
It is plastic.
Siobhan Vivian
#23. We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby
#24. If you can't see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it's just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.
J.Z. Colby
#25. Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby
#26. Vann also came to realize something else. As offensive as the lack of cultural awareness in the office was, part of that deficit was his own. They didn't understand him, but he didn't understand them, either. (197)
Tanner Colby
#27. Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby
#28. I think you will like your life in the Transport Service, but it'll be far from normal. Being a slave ... or a goatherd's wife ... is closer to normal. A deep-space response ship pilot is a very, very rare thing.
J.Z. Colby
#29. I can't feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.
J.Z. Colby
#30. No, this isn't right. I don't think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don't understand it either.
J.Z. Colby
#31. I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman." Mia Kensington to Colby Winters
Cristin Harber
#32. The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.
William Colby
#33. That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Bainbridge Colby
#34. Colby better not bring me home Bambi, or I just might want to divorce him
Jody Morse
#36. The more we know about each other the safer we all are.
William Colby
#37. There is nothing wrong with the lives we lead. Sometimes it's best to just play your position,
Colby Taylor
#38. I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.
Sarah Dessen
#39. The other day, we went somewhere, and did something.
Colby Buzzell
#40. I think I see your point. It wouldn't be fair for me to judge your answers without having had a life experience similar to yours. Do I understand you correctly?
J.Z. Colby
#41. The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.
William Colby
#43. But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
Bainbridge Colby
#44. I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.
J.Z. Colby
#45. That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
#46. A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Bainbridge Colby
#47. Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?
Richard Russo
#48. The things we buy and the brands we use are just another way for us to project our preconceptions onto one another.
Tanner Colby
#49. The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ...
J.Z. Colby
#50. Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby
#51. I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.
Joan Collins
#52. Not all destinies are fair, Colby. Hers isn't, yours isn't. We get the lives we choose, even when we don't know we're making a choice.
C. Robert Cargill
#53. Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby
#54. There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
Frank Moore Colby
#55. The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.
Colby Buzzell
#56. If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
Frank Moore Colby
#57. We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that arises is fixed, and I mean really fixed - not ignored, not hidden, and not passed off to a future generation.
J.Z. Colby
#58. Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
Bainbridge Colby
#59. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.
William Colby
#60. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#62. It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
Bainbridge Colby
#63. I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
Bainbridge Colby
#64. Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby
#65. On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.
J.Z. Colby
#66. Dellwyn: I will teach you everything you need to know to entice your father's murderer into killing his wife to be with you."
Aya: It sounds so disturbing when you say it like that.
Kate M. Colby
#67. Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
Bainbridge Colby
#68. As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
Frank Moore Colby
#69. You are the sum total of the people you meet and interact with in the world. Whether it's your family, peers, or co-workers, the opportunities you have and the things that you learn all come through doors that other people open for you. (205)
Tanner Colby
#70. The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesn't make them go away.
J.Z. Colby
#71. I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby ... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#72. Or I'll show you. If that's what you want, Colby finished.
Roni Loren
#73. Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.
Frank Moore Colby
#74. By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Frank Moore Colby
#75. My mom's like me and she doesn't want to look weak in front of other people. And she's like Colby in the way that she has to take hits at other people whenever she feels threatened. That used to make me want to cave and do what she wants. But it doesn't anymore.
M-E Girard
#76. I'm just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet ... and where not to.
J.Z. Colby
#77. Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.
J.Z. Colby
#78. The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Frank Moore Colby
#79. As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
Frank Moore Colby
#80. And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby
#81. Of course not," Colby replied. "What's mine is yours, and what's yours is, well . . . yours.
Jody Morse
#82. One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.
J.Z. Colby
#83. Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.
Frank Moore Colby
#84. No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa's Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.
J.Z. Colby
#85. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
Frank Moore Colby
#86. America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
Bainbridge Colby
#87. An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby
#88. We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Frank Moore Colby
#90. Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
Frank Moore Colby
#91. Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Frank Moore Colby
#92. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)
Colin Dexter
#93. Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby
#95. Ninjas are way cooler than pirates. pg 4
Colby Hodge
#96. Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat.
Tanner Colby
#97. Alright, Colby. How we wanna play this? In through the skylight? Side entrance? Sneak in the back?"
"Are you kidding? Fuck all that shit. Poyo don't sneak.
John Layman
#98. Key requirements for SAM systems to be used in eastern Ukraine include autonomy and stealth. The former means the ability to attack targets with a single operational combat vehicle; the latter means attacking targets without revealing the SAM system's location through the use of radar. These
Colby Howard
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