Nutshell Quotes

“In a nutshell, the difference between Christianity and all other belief systems is who you're putting your trust in: in Christ, or in yourself?”

“There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.”

“I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.”

“I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.”

“In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.”

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.”

“Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.”

“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”

“In a nutshell: Stress is stress - no matter whether it's from exercise or from lifestyle - and the more stress you're placing on yourself from your lifestyle, the less stress you'll be able to place on yourself from exercise.”

“Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear.”