Nibbled Quotes


We always want to find a way to forgive and excuse deception engaged in by people we support. The whole concept of being held accountable has gotten so nibbled at that it's barely visible. - Ralph Keyes



The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke



The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. - Ted Morgan



Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs / Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there / At this or that box, pulling through the gap, / In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, / The first book first. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Jake nibbled a little that inning, walked a guy, gave up a jam shot, and then the home run. - Eric Wedge



I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them... - Annie Dillard



Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. - Eric Sevareid



Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land. - Francis X. Clines



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