Cringe Movie Quotes & Sayings

The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. It's — Mark Manson

When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm? — Cat Johnson

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them. — Gertrude Stein

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. — Ray Stannard Baker

She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. — George Eliot

Now at first you'll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won't feel anything at all. — Damian Wampler

Life doesn't stop. It doesn't stop progressing forward and it never stops trying to bring you to your knees. It will test your strengths and exploit your weakness, and I'm not sure that is always such a bad thing. — Christy Aldridge

Press and gloom make recognition difficult. Man and wife are strangers two paces apart to mention only this most intimate of all bonds. Let them move on till they are close enough to touch and then without pausing on their way exchange a look. If they recognize each other it does not appear. Whatever it is they are searching for it is not that. — Samuel Beckett

His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me. — J. B. Torrance

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine. — Karl Kraus

Meanwhile, Blakeborough placed himself behind them like a guard. The investigator in Dom went to work analyzing the man's attire--expensive but not ostentatious, studied but not affected--and Blakeborough's wary stance, closed manner, and stiff expression. Was that just his usual response to strangers or a sign that he was bracing for trouble about his brother? Which could mean he was well aware of Barlow's scheme.
But the man in Dom noticed none of that. It just wanted to march over and punch bloody Blakeborough in his perfect, unscarred face for being too rich, too eligible, and too thoroughly engaged to Jane. The man in him wanted to throttle the earl for standing guard over Jane when she should be Dom's responsibility. Dom's to protect. Dom's to marry.
The man in him had to shut up, unfortunately. Or this investigation wouldn't progress very far. — Sabrina Jeffries

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more. — Nina Garcia

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are. — Shawn Amos

Some who deserve failure do not achieve it," he sniffed. "Some who deserve nothing are given the world. — Catherynne M Valente