Top 44 Up To Snuff Quotes
#1. The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#2. Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Alvin Ailey
#3. I may believe I'm not up to snuff, but Jill? Jill thinks I can date the Great Gatsby.
Liza Palmer
#4. If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.
Ben Affleck
#5. Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.
John D. MacDonald
#6. Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.
Julian Assange
#7. I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.
John Waters
#9. Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man, are the same faculties that'll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!
David Mitchell
#10. When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.
Masao Abe
#11. To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#12. I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.
Dinah Katt
#13. If the source turned out to be opposed to Rezkin, it would be like two wildfires meeting with Ashai in the center. They may snuff each other out, but everyone and everything caught between them would be destroyed. Maker forbid the two find common ground and become one.
Kel Kade
#14. He's excitement. He's adrenaline.
He makes my heart do stupid shit.
Shit my heart shouldn't be doing.
Because everything that turns me on about him could also snuff me out.
J.M. Darhower
#15. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
Shan Sa
#16. Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall
-The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
#17. Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. When you've got nothing left inside of you except for darkness, it becomes easier to snuff out somebody else's light.
J.M. Darhower
#19. And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?'
Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I wish Lady Pole to wear tonight!' He opened the box and showed Stephen a small, white finger.
Susanna Clarke
#20. I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
Fred Durst
#21. We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
Robin Hobb
#22. This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right here is your voice. This physical thing just amplifies it. Don't be afraid of your voice. You have a voice without a microphone. Use it and don't let anybody snuff you out and tell you don't have one.
Hayley Williams
#23. Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#24. C'mon on down to the Whiff and Spit; snuff it up and cough it out, Lewis chanted, giving it a catchy rhythem.
L.J.Smith
#25. When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions only stoke the fires of conflict; responses, particularly godly ones, help us snuff out the conflict.
Matt Chandler
#26. To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.
Robert Liparulo
#27. Some people will try their best to snuff out the candle of hope inside of you. Don't let them!
Jose N. Harris
#28. The chase was the best part, Hunting was intoxicating. And knowing I had the power to snuff out Nila Weaver's life the moment I caught her gave me a certain ... thrill.
Pepper Winters
#29. Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
Dean Koontz
#30. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]
Chuck Palahniuk
#31. Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
William Shakespeare
#32. Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.
Michael R. Fletcher
#33. Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
Fannie Flagg
#34. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. Matthew 12:20
Thomas Watson
#35. Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
James Howell
#36. Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#37. Silencer, was as good as any. It described his purpose: to snuff out the human noise.
Rick Yancey
#38. Hell is other people," said Jean-Paul Sartre. "Hell is other real people,' is what he should have said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#39. While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
Michael Huffington
#40. There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
Gautama Buddha
#41. The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum.
Harper Lee
#42. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#43. Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
James J. Hill
#44. I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
Douglas Hofstadter
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