Being Even Keeled Quotes & Sayings

One kiss, and that was everything. — Victor Hugo

So you say there is no Father Christmas, You say there is no Santa Claus Reindeer cannot fly, it's all a grown-up lie... — M.C. Frank

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear. — Kate O'Neill

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal. — Michael Franti

There is, in the early period of love, a measure of sheer relief at being able, at last, to reveal so much of what needed to be kept hidden for the sake of propriety. We can admit to not being as respectable or as sober, as even-keeled, or as "normal" as society believes. We can be childish, imaginative, wild, hopeful, cynical, fragile, and multiple; all of this our lover can understand and accept us for. At — Alain De Botton

Normative statements about "women's roles" and girls' and women's behaviour being "appropriately feminine" were replaced with more neutral statements about what women and girl versus boys and men do and think and say they want. In this way, conventionally gendered behaviour was taken out of the context of prescription and presented as simple description. This had the possibly unanticipated consequence, though, of taking these behaviours out of the context of the social world. The descriptive approach significantly deemphasised the role of norms, social structures, and modelling in developing gendered traits. Instead, disembodied as "naked facts" of sex differences, they began to look more and more like simple reflections of male and female behaviour. — Rebecca M. Jordan-Young

When a customer asks what no one else has ever asked, pay close attention. — Ron Kaufman

Gather the courage to encourage yourself. Your self-motivation will energize you to dream of bigger ambitions to accomplish in life! — Israelmore Ayivor

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul. — Louise Erdrich

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it. — Kenneth Branagh

He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his temper over them; but he felt now that he could not rebuke this flower of his life, this innocent form, water and youth are inseparable companions, and besides it's Christmas night. So he merely hinted again that she must have forgotten again that he had promised to build her a house. — Halldor Laxness

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio. — Adam Baldwin

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world. — Bo Sanchez

Some people don't like lawyers, that is, until they need them — Kenneth Eade

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical. — Sara Novic