Cockman Appliances Quotes & Sayings

At the same time, minor failings or incidental impropriety may, he feels, be interpreted as a direct expression of his stigmatized differentness. Ex-mental patients, for example, are sometimes afraid to engage in sharp interchanges with spouse or employer because of what a show of emotion might be taken as a sign of. Mental defectives face a similar contingency: It also happens that if a person of low intellectual ability gets into some sort of trouble the difficulty is more or less automatically attributed to "mental defect" whereas if a person of "normal intelligence" gets into a similar difficulty, it is not regarded as symptomatic of anything in particular.31 — Erving Goffman

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: - it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread. — Wislawa Szymborska

Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint) — Randy Alcorn

Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too. — Lou Holtz

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along. — Arthur C. Clarke

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do. — Rose McIver

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. — L.M. Montgomery

You," he whispered his eyes warm and fixated on me, "hold my heart captive."
I nodded solemnly before murmuring my reply. "And I'll never let it go. — Laury Falter

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. — Alphonse De Lamartine

If you understand, it is not God. — Saint Augustine

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. — P.G. Wodehouse

To write for one's bread and to write for mere pastime are very different matters. — William Le Queux

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. — Umberto Eco

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending. — Mitch McConnell