Amorette Anderson Quotes & Sayings

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge. — Raymond Kelly

Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers. — Ben Bernanke

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody. — Cullen Hightower

I knew by this time what Thea thought of these people and in fact of most people, with their faulty humanity. She couldn't stand them. And what her eccentricity amounted to was that she proposed a different kind of humanity altogether. I guess nothing restrains people from demanding ideal conditions. Very little restrains them from anything. Thea's standard was high, but she wasn't exactly to blame as having arbitrarily set it high. For when she talked to me about some particular person she'd be more frightened than scornful. People with whom she had to struggle scared her, and what I'd call average hypocrisy, just the incidental little whiffs of the social machine, was terribly hard on her. As for greediness or envy, fat self-smelling of appreciation, hates and destructions, fraud, gnawing, she had a very poor tolerance of them, and I'd see her go out in the eyes in a really dangerous way at a gathering. — Saul Bellow

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style. — Epictetus

Life is so long, and too hard, and then it ends so cruel and sudden! — Margo Lanagan

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. — Gottfried Leibniz

Well ... that's going in the trash. (I'm not referring to an enemy either). — Donna Lynn Hope

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. — Robert A. Heinlein

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them. — John Gay

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. — Honore De Balzac