Concretization Psychology Quotes & Sayings

Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is life wrapped in cotton wool. — Chloe Thurlow

We all want love. We all want affection and admiration. But there will inevitably be people determined to hate you no matter what you do. And chances are, their approval isn't worth your struggle to get it. — Maggie Young

For decades I've had an intense interest in the history and mythology of the Silk Road, I think in part because an aspect of me loves the resonance of long distance travel as a theme or anchor, if you will, for narrative. The ways that cultures rise and fade across centuries, the ways cultures connect and conflict, absorb and reject, transform or remain static: As a writer this is thematic content that never gets old for me. A million million stories rise out of the endless back and forth of cultural contact in all its best and worst aspects, and everything in between. Weave that within a story of adventure or empire or a journey into unknown spaces and I'm in writer and reader hog heaven. — Kate Elliott

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk

These settlements [Justice Department with lenders] include requirements that banks lend to minorities at below-market rates and, in effect, dish out cash to politically favored 'community groups.' It's a good bet that many of these loans will eventually go bad. — Mary Kissel

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally. — Thomas Hobbes

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. — Benjamin Franklin

Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent. — Craig Kilborn

And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that. — John Slattery

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about. — Jeff Lindsay

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. — Charles R. Swindoll

Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence. — David Norman

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. — Stephen Hawking

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. — Jeffrey Wright