Duteousness Quotes & Sayings

Would Eric enjoy being a Sooner? As I navigated through Shreveport, I wondered if Oklahoma vampires wore cowboy boots and knew all the songs from the musical. — Charlaine Harris

You just feel better when you look nice. — Gin Wigmore

There is a particularly unattractive and discouragingly common affliction called tunnel vision, which for all the misery it causes, ought to top the job list at the World Health Organization. Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good dea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comps out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended. — Tom Robbins

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them. — Umberto Eco

When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying 'Absolutely not' or 'Definitely yes.' Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn't progressing. So now I'm relinquishing a bit. I'll be a tiny bit naked. — Robert Pattinson

The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge. — Pope Francis

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations. — Jonathan Haidt

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really. — John Green