Combative Behavior Quotes & Sayings

As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity. — Junot Diaz

I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me. — Will Oldham

You are different." She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline.
He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin.
"For whatever reason," she said softly, "when you are with me, you are
simply Isaac and I am Coral. — Elizabeth Hoyt

We lose too soon, and only find delight
In withered husks of some dead memory. — Oscar Wilde

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably — Walter Isaacson

I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack your head off with a couple of others. Every man should be allowed one day and a hatchet just to ease his heart. — Djuna Barnes

Good fashion is evolution, not revolution. — Pierre Balmain

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' — Mikhail Gorbachev

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else. — Trevor D. Richardson

In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on. — Edward Kennedy

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research. — Maria Bartiromo

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. — James Cash Penney