quotes about Prowess

last updated: November 28, 2023

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
-- Anthony Daniels

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Ability is God-given, prowess is earned,
-- John Harbaugh

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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
-- Van Wyck Brooks

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“Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.”
“I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.”
“Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
“you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.”
“After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.”

Source : Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.
“As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.”
“I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
“Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasnâ€™t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.31, Hachette UK