Shibboleths Quotes

#1. I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.

Cass Sunstein

#2. My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#4. Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.

Ron Chernow

#5. Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.

James K. Morrow

#6. discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been passed down in the traditions of usage. The

Steven Pinker

#7. Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

Steven Pinker

#8. Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

John Lahr

#9. Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Calvin Trillin

#10. If you bed enough women, some will give you presents,

George R R Martin

#11. And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.

Alex Lifeson

#12. Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.

Hanya Yanagihara

#13. Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

James Baldwin

#14. I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

Bill Gates

#15. Everyone should get to experience a love like that. That kind of love that makes us better people.

R.K. Lilley

#16. Anything a guy can do a girl can do better ... except being stupid

Kimora Lee Simmons

#17. My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.

Jack Canfield

#18. Knowledge can create unlimited credit whereas credit can only buy limited knowledge.

Karen Lord

#19. conflict is productive

Patrick Lencioni

#20. My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

Kate Upton

#21. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

William Benton Clulow

#22. Please keep in mind that no matter how strong, fast or coordinated you are, there is always someone stronger, faster and more coordinated.

Helio Gracie