Counterproductivity Meme Quotes & Sayings

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. — Anne Lamott

I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam. — Diana Gabaldon

And what is I was only supposed to burn for a certain amount of time?" I whispered. "What if I was only meant to shine for a while?"
"Then you truly don't know what stars are meant to do."
I looked at him in wonder.
"They are meant to give us hope in the face of infinity". — Karina Halle

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food. — Kevin Kwan

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity." — Judith Thurman

I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me ... — George Frideric Handel

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells - he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. — Ted Hughes

Excuses are incompatible with excellence. The — Eric Greitens

Duplication is the primary enemy of a well-designed system. — Robert C. Martin