Unmaneuverable Quotes

#1. Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable - and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

David Brin

#2. In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Simone Weil

#3. Winning the overall is a dream I've had since being a young skier. It's everyone's dream.

Tina Maze

#4. War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Aaron Huey

#5. He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

Thomas Mann

#6. In barbaric lands like the Americas, writers produced their best work before learning the craft, and nine times out of ten, their book was the strongest, as well as being, in general, the only one they wrote.

Cesar Aira

#7. God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Edna O'Brien

#9. Those letters under the door
A new life
The war at a distance
and my drinking glass that smokes
A brightness crowns the universe
("Two Poems")

Paul Dermee

#10. African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

John Henrik Clarke

#11. Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. Self-loathing is hell.

Marty Rubin

#13. Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn