quotes about Sniping

last updated: November 28, 2023

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.
-- Lauren Willig

Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

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There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.
-- Rob Portman

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“There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.”
“Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.”
“I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.”
“Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them..”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.78, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”

Source : Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books
“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”
“The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.”
“You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.”
“There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.”