Counselors Favorite Quotes & Sayings

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome. — David Hare

A lot of educated, thoughtful, well-meaning people will spend hours and hundreds of dollars buying their rascally child this year's must-have toy at Christmastime. A lot of overworked, distracted, sort-of-nice husbands will purchase diamond earrings to make things better with the wife they are ignoring. Gadget purchased. Household calm. Jewelry bought. Wife satisfied. We put an impressive amount of faith in the capacity of material things that other people make to repair the troubled circumstances of our own creation. — Dave Bruno

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens. — Jimmy Wales

This was always the difficult part, back when she'd been at her old school: explaining that "asexual" and "aromantic" were different things. — Seanan McGuire

Sure he's dead, and it's a good thing for us. It's hard to argue with a dead man. A dead man can't change his mind or make new rules, or behave like a bastard so no one will listen to him anymore. A dead man stays a saint. — Cherie Priest

Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would we burn to make the world take note? — Mark Lawrence

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer. — Bill Gates

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself. — Joseph Hall

Rose took my nose, I suppose," he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. "And it really blows. — James Dashner

It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target. — Romain Grosjean

All the fighting and near-death experiences didn't come close to the intensity of life I felt exploding within me in at this moment. This was what I'd been looking for, the thing that would blast the taste of death from my mind until all I could do was feel. — Donna Augustine

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. — John Boyega

I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. — Sebastian Thrun

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away. — Joseph Girzone