Temporizing Quotes

#1. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.

Laura Riding

#3. Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

Noah Webster

#4. [M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

George Washington

#5. Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) Entangling ground; (3) Temporizing ground; (4) Narrow passes; (5) Precipitous heights; (6) Positions at a great distance from the enemy.

Sun Tzu

#6. Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Joey Skaggs

#7. Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.

R.L. LaFevers

#8. When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

Fred Hollows

#9. No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

James Randi

#10. Last but not least'," he read, "'remind Mark I loved him best and most.

T.A. Webb

#11. I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

Nolan Bushnell

#12. Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams. But fighters do what they do best when they've

Charlie LeDuff

#13. I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.

Alan Autry

#14. They gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama

Mitch Albom

#15. but how to establish a process by which a sales team of modest size can move the product to a wide audience.

Peter Thiel

#16. I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

Danica Patrick