Emotionally Defeated Quotes & Sayings

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. — R. Buckminster Fuller

It was easier to fall to pieces when there weren't a million people judging you. — Micah McDaniel

Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person. — Asa Don Brown

YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO! — Celine Kiernan

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? — J.G. Ballard

Every personal existence was upheld by a secret. — Anton Chekhov

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years. — Warren Ellis

Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him. — Joseph Heller

A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant. — Walter Lippmann

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume. — Arthur Potts Dawson

If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. — Camille Paglia

He couldn't bring himself to look directly at her. Her gown was the color of daylight just before sunset; if he looked at her too long, he feared he might be left blind once she was gone. — Courtney Milan

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. — Conrad Black