Ashman House Quotes & Sayings

We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term ... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed. — Michael Corbat

If she sees him again, she isn't sure what she might do. Only that it will include grievous bodily harm and possible grounds for her own firing. — Nenia Campbell

The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts... — Tove Jansson

Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit. — Natalie Massenet

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. — Chief Joseph

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered. — Chuck Palahniuk

Charlotte leveled him with a glare the likes of which he had never seen in synthetic women. It seemed to penetrate his every cell, as though she were watching him decay one picosecond at a time — Madeline Ashby

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human. — Helen Oyeyemi

Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience. — David D. Burns

'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty. — Adam Ross

Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places. — Amitav Ghosh

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be. — Heidi Montag