Displeased Meme Quotes & Sayings

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization. — George H. W. Bush

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest. — Charles Caleb Colton

When I said "I love you" I meant forever. If I said "I hate you" I meant never. — Alysha Speer

To clothe the penguins is a very serious business. At present when a penguin desires a penguin he knows precisely what he desires and his lust is limited by an exact knowledge of its object. At this moment two or three couples of penguins are making love on the beach. See with what simplicity! No one pays any attention and the actors themselves do not seem to be greatly preoccupied. But when the female penguins are clothed, the male penguin will not form so exact a notion of what it is that attracts him to them. His indeterminate desires will fly out into all sorts of dreams and illusions; in short, father, he will know love and its mad torments. And all the time the female penguins will cast down their eyes and bite their lips, and take on airs as if they kept a treasure under their clothes! . . . what a pity! — Anatole France

Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Whatever." Priestly mutters. "Maybe if you got your head out of those books and paid more attention to guys, you wouldn't have to try so hard to get a date!"
I shoot him daggers. "Well, maybe if you got your head out of your ass and paid more attention to what girls really want, then maybe they'd remember your name! — Joanne McClean

There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile ... no sound sweeter than your laughter ... no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you're my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love ... how can you have reached so far inside my heart? — Lisa Kleypas

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. — S. Jay Olshansky

No one who is angry or shallow can repeat what they've said. The moment you ask a person to repeat, you have won the battle. You have put them on guard. So don't reply angrily and don't take any offense, just say politely, "Yes, I understand, but could you please repeat it?" With that, you have won. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. — Jeanette Winterson

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig