Top 100 Quotes About Dent
#1. Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.
George Vecsey
#3. The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#4. He may be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendent of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.
Stuart Hill
#5. We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
Charlie Dent
#6. Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#7. On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#8. You cannot become the greatest without at least a gr- and a test inside of you
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#9. Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.
Douglas Adams
#10. It's very simple," said Ford, "my client, Mr. Dent, says that he will stop lying here in the mud on the sole condition that you come and take over from him.
Douglas Adams
#11. My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#12. The three-part whats to winning:
1. What you have.
2. What you need.
3. What you believe.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#13. (who was arguing with a spokesman for the bulldozer drivers about whether or not Arthur Dent constituted a mental health hazard, and how much they should get paid if he did)
Douglas Adams
#14. Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.
Michelle Malkin
#15. The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.
Marisha Pessl
#17. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#18. Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.
Douglas Adams
#19. It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!
Denny Dent
#21. There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.
Charlie Dent
#22. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.
Craig Dent
#23. Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
Douglas Adams
#24. I want to make a dent in the universe
Steve Jobs
#25. A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#26. To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important.
Jason Fried
#27. You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there
Rose McGowan
#28. A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#29. I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
Douglas Adams
#30. Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?"
My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.
David Klass
#33. Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !
Seth Godin
#34. At some point we all play by the rules, whether it's the rules of all mankind, the rules of Father who is time, or the rules of nature who is Mother
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#35. The power a wife is not to prove her husband but to improve him.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#36. [On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
Betty Rollin
#38. I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.
John Carlos Frey
#39. Aw, come on, it's just hot as hell there and my AC doesn't even make a dent. Let's try for something cooler."
~ Loki ~
Lora Leigh
#40. Time is not currently one of my problems. - Arthur Dent
Douglas Adams
#41. I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
Johnny Ramone
#42. The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#43. Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
Michael Longley
#44. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#46. I'm very happyWhen you start a career you never think about the Hall of Fame ... watching a guy like Walter Payton, he would say 'Don't do what I say, do what I do.' If you can do your thing the way he does his, the possibility is you will get in the Hall of Fame.
Richard Dent
#47. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#48. authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#49. Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#50. The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.
Susie Dent
#51. The best indicator? People do predictable things as they age. That's it in a nutshell. So,
Harry S. Dent Jr.
#54. A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent - the victim's head or your pan - then throw that pan right in the trash.
Anthony Bourdain
#57. One possible way of couching it is to choose to say that we will take apart your skull very gently and reconstruct a skull for you that will have a highly developed bump of clarity and a slight concave dent where the fear-instinct used to be.
David Foster Wallace
#58. Why," said Arthur Dent, "isn't anyone ever pleased to see us?
Douglas Adams
#59. We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something ... because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.
Chris Anderson
#60. When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.
Charlie Dent
#61. If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.
Amit Bhatia
#62. We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#63. Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
William Glasser
#64. Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#66. The earth is round for a reason. Your minimum effort starts you at the top of the world; your maximum effort keeps you there.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#67. Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the same time.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#68. I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.
Kenneth P. Thompson
#69. It is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#70. We must reset our sails to take advantage of these changing winds and prosper as a business and individual. You can make the most of this downturn and position yourself for the next boom that's going to follow.
Harry S. Dent
#71. It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.
Gwen Moore
#72. Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Ellen Glasgow
#73. By the time others begin to make moves, you should be mastering maneuvers
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#74. We know the soul-spirit can be injured, even maimed, but it is very nearly impossible to kill. You can dent the soul and bend it. You can hurt it and scar it. You can leave the marks of illness upon it, and scorch marks of fear. But it does not die, for it protected by La Loba...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#75. Keep your small shy away from the dent you make.
Farrah Field
#76. Denial exists when three beliefs
intersect:
1. It cannot happen.
2. It cannot happen to you.
3. It cannot happen to you now.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#77. Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
Douglas Adams
#78. There are three perquisites for living:
1. Be yourself.
2. Get over yourself (Things people have done to you; things you have done to others)
3. Have a strong commitment to something greater than yourself.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#79. Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.
RuPaul
#80. Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#81. What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!
Jimmy Durante
#82. When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.
Harry S. Dent
#84. An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#85. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Harvey Dent
#86. The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.
Douglas Adams
#88. You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
Charlie Dent
#89. While his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back.
Douglas Adams
#90. What comes from the heart lands on the heart creatively.
Denny Dent
#91. I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.
Alessia Cara
#92. Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
Vint Cerf
#93. The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#95. The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go; but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#96. I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.
Charlie Dent
#97. It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#99. I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.
David Brudnoy
#100. The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something;only after coming through something.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
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