Derisive Remarks Quotes & Sayings

May you find the confidence and courage to climb new heights. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children. — Judy Blume

When two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen. — Rosamond Lehmann

Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning? — J.K. Rowling

He has a really consistent routine. He comes in in the morning at around 8:30. He reads five newspapers. He reads The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Omaha World Herald. Then he has a stack of reports on his desk from the companies Berkshire owns, and some trade press like American Banker or oil and gas journals, and through the rest of the day, he alternates between flipping through this stuff and then talking on the phone to people either who call him or who he calls. He never calls his managers; they can call him. He is really accessible, but he leaves them alone.
Then he has CNBC on all day long with the crawl, with the sound muted and if he sees his name cross along the bottom and they are talking about him, he will turn the sound on to find out what they are saying. That is his day. He doesn't do meetings
there are no meetings.
— Alice Schroeder

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used. — Jeffrey Kluger

We routinely deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens every year whose sole offense is that they overstayed a visa or came without the right paperwork - but people who were involved in crimes against humanity get to stay? — Jodi Picoult

Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent. — John Bingham

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. — Douglas William Jerrold

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire. — Anil Kapoor

Dogs make good pets because they are very loyal — Dave Barry

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. — Thomas Jefferson

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors. — T. S. Eliot

Technically, we're all half centaur. — Nick Offerman