Thumbs Quotations | Page 2

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

The markets have been pinning their hopes on improved chances of speedier tax cuts and structural reforms that would speed up the road to faster German recovery, ... Investors would tend to give a grand coalition the thumbs down, as reforms would be put on ice.

I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.

I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.