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Quotes About Exploits

full of stories about the old man's exploits. As for the house at 100 High Street, it was
~ John Bellairs
the passionate being prepares his explosions and his exploits in this solitude.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Misfits … It seems to me that their adventure, more than any other, sheds a light on the future, that they alone allow us to glimpse and to decipher it, and that if we set their exploits aside we utterly disqualify ourselves from describing the days to come.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.
~ Christopher Lloyd
The French attitude to the Finnish War reminded one of the voyeur who gets his thrills out of other people's manly exploits.
~ Arthur Koestler
Henry Gordon Jago: Perhaps [Queen Victoria] has got wind of our exploits, and has decided it's time to mete out the medals for services rendered. . . . I'd say some official recognition is long overdue. Prof. Litefoot: It strikes me as unlikely, Henry, that she would, as you put it, "have got wind of our exploits." Jago: The Queen gets wind just like everyone else, George.
~ Jonathan Morris
My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There's no end to the tales of his exploits.
~ Carole Radziwill
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
~ Jean Genet
No one's exploits in the division had glowed more incandescently than those of Douglas MacArthur. He was that rarity, a courageous exhibitionist, a fearless showoff, a man who had done it all and wanted the world to know.
~ Joseph E. Persico
There are only a few stories of Krishna that are popular. His exploits with the gopikas, for example. But not many understand the spiritual implications of such events.
~ Shobana
It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Sometimes I think prostitution and slavery may be the actual subjects of all fiction because of the way fiction exploits its characters.)
~ Fanny Howe
The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour. The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...
~ Michael Billig
As disorienting as The Final Programme was, however, its relentless novelty was undercut by a peculiar familiarity: Cornelius's exploits mirrored those of Elric of Melniboné almost exactly, blow for blow. Even a minor character like the Melnibonéan servant Tanglebones could turn up anagrammatized as the Cornelius family's retainer John Gnatbeelson.
~ Michael Moorcock
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
~ Hans Jonas
I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.
~ Christopher Poole
Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power. It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing can be a fine thing according to our opinion. Why? Because anyone who wants to dance the tightrope will be alone, and I can get together a stronger body of people to say there is nothing fine about it.
~ Blaise Pascal
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.
~ Luke Roberts
Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
~ Bob Beckel
Their humility stopped them from seeking fame or fortune because their love of country sparked their exploits.
~ Brian Kilmeade
up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out. But
~ Thomas Hardy
Through a diligent study of God's Word, under the guidance of His Spirit, you'll drop a strong anchor that will hold in the storms of life. You will know your God. And when you know your God, not only will you be strong, but you will do great exploits for Him (Daniel 11:32).
~ Kay Arthur
He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.
~ Isabel Allende
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.
~ Kevin Mitnick