Excellent – Quotes

Despite my excellent mood,

Despite my excellent mood, I don’t have any sympathy for Romney. If he’d been a good candidate he wouldn’t have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar. Gail Collins

She filed the image

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment. Gail Carriger

Many who burnt heretics

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. G. M. Trevelyan

No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, … Read more

I dont fully understand

I dont fully understand my wifes emotions – and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women? Evan Goldberg

Zoo: An excellent place

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. Evan Esar

The religious leader is

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account. Eugene H. Peterson

I once knew an

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential. Ernst Mach

Of all the excellent

Of all the excellent copyedits I’ve received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond’s was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute. Esi Edugyan

We in America should

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power … Read more