1846 Quarter Quotes & Sayings

That's what marriage was at its best: You didn't have to tell your partner to look out, that you were falling. They were just there to catch you. — Jamie Brenner

The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it. — Carol Tavris

She said she remembered when Republicans compared President Roosevelt to Hitler and to Stalin and to Mussolini. She said she used to see people wearing I HATE ELEANOR buttons walk past her on the sidewalk and she wanted to spit, she wanted to kill them. — Amy Bloom

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Men suck," Larsley says, blowing another bubble and then spitting the gum out the window, like she's trying to spit out the whole idea of men. — Alexandra Teague

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought — Laurence J. Peter

every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering. — Nancy Alcorn

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. — C.S. Lewis

She didn't want to keep talking about him as if everything was okay. Worst of all, she hated sorting through his mail. Reading the hatred people had for her family and worse, reading how others immortalized him into a god for what he'd done. — Anais Torres

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch? — Jeff Lindsay

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then? — Quentin Crisp