Uncurbed Quotes

#1. For what good does it do us to guide a horse and control his speed with the curb, and then find that our own passions, utterly uncurbed, bolt with us? Or to beat many opponents in wrestling or boxing, and then to find that we ourselves are beaten by anger?

Seneca.

#2. Afflictions clarify the soul;
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

Francis Quarles

#3. Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

Noam Chomsky

#4. If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Evita Peron

#5. When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Cesar Pelli

#6. For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Laurence Sterne

#7. And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. The Prince, XVIII, 5

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. Myrddin', I said gently, 'what is she to you?'
His head whipped round and he glared at me. His mouth was a grimace of revulsion, and his eyes were hard, bright points of pain. 'She is my death

Stephen R. Lawhead

#9. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. The way of the warrior is the way of knowing. If that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Pain and frustration will be your only reward if you try.

Christopher Paolini

#11. At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.

Aporva Kala

#12. You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.

Kevin Whately

#13. The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

Leonard Ravenhill

#14. Piecing together a murder was much more difficult than piecing together a cake.

Ellie Alexander

#15. We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

Chelsea Clinton