Quotes About Tactlessness

#1. Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Democritus

#2. War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Every day and night we hope for a new day not knowing that it draws us nearer to the grave.

Auliq Ice

#4. I don't know why it so happens in life that one absolutely can't do something simple but important.

Sasha Sokolov

#5. If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to be there. Nash Hudson would be one of the stars: too bright to look at, too hot to touch and at the center of his own solar system.

Rachel Vincent

#6. Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#7. I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

#8. I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

Palmer Luckey

#9. No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Ted Lange

#11. I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Demetri Martin