Shibboleth Quotes

#1. (Ibid. on using the verb to be in this culturally envenomed way, too, as in 'I'll Be There For You,' which has become the sort of empty spun-sugar shibboleth that communicates nothing except a certain unreflective sappiness in the speaker.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

Leon Max

#3. The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Bruno Latour

#4. Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg

#5. People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

Isabelle Fuhrman

#6. God's holiness without God's love would be unbearable. God's love without God's holiness would be unjust. God's wisdom found a way to bring them congruently together. It involved a cross

Thomas C. Oden

#7. Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

William Glasser

#8. Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Steve Maraboli

#9. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Saint Augustine

#11. True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

Socrates

#12. I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

Valentino Garavani

#13. We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

John Hench

#14. The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.

Mario Andretti

#15. She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. Truth be told, I didn't intend to get caught. I don't worry about repercussions until they smack me in the head.

Anonymous

#17. You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

James Hansen

#18. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Lucille Ball

#19. Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.

Victor Lodato