Contactually By Compass Quotes & Sayings

People never fully confront their wrongdoing. They are all trying to push for their own ends, and they lack the strength to truly apologise for that. In my heart of hearts, I wondered if I was just the same. — Guy Mankowski

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world. — Andrea Hirata

No, what they want is to experience a passion so huge, overwhelming, powerful and irresistible that it obliterates any guilt or tension or culpability they might feel about betraying their perceived responsibilities. — David Foster Wallace

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal. — Scott Berkun

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance. — Kristen Bell

The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed. — Danny Boyle

Of processing and analyzing: two hours of sleep. Cost of thinking: two more hours of sleep. Cost of giving the elusive more to the insanely sexy Stone Wilder: priceless. — Jill Shalvis

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.
And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes. — Nina George

The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect. — Mary McCarthy

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. — George Herbert

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. — H.L. Mencken