Appointer Of The Red Quotes & Sayings

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger — Stieg Larsson

Sometimes I think the city is naturally conducive to coincidences in the same way that Plains states like Nebraska and Oklahoma are conducive to twisters, in the same way that mountain lakes are conducive to lightning. — Robert Sullivan

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. — Edmund Burke

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,
by consulting the oracular dead. — Augustus William Hare

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. — Herman Melville

The love of a good woman can save a man" I remember Gabriel saying. "Or it can drive him to fits of unspeakable madness. — Molly Harper

For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it! — Brian Cox

What seems most important is that Dostoevsky's near-death experience changed a typically vain and trendy young writer-a very talented writer, true, but still one whose basic concerns were for his own literary glory-into a person who believed deeply in moral/spiritual values ... more, into someone who believed that a life lived without moral/spiritual values was not just incomplete but depraved. — David Foster Wallace