Evan Esar Quotes

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Evan Esar

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• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Day

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Government
  • Forward
  • Where

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Fit
  • Object

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Work
  • Single
  • Magic

• Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

  

  John Travolta
  • World
  • Sports
  • Exciting

• Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.

  

  Joanne Rowling

• For some reason, we've just lost it. I know we still have it. Everyone has got to find it.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • Lost
  • Reason

• No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Water

• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Offspring

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• Hey, Jamie,' said Seb. 'Want a lift?' 'Hey, Seb,' Jamie responded without missing a beat 'Drop dead.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Dead

• He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Life
  • Her
  • Minute

• Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Conscience
  • Credit
  • Cowardice