Germer Construction Quotes & Sayings

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. — Bret Easton Ellis

The secret of successful treatment is not to become a perfect, shining star or to learn to be in complete control of your feelings. These strategies are doomed to failure. In contrast, when you accept yourself as an imperfect but eminently lovable human being, and you stop fighting your emotions so strenuously, your fear will often lose its grip over you. — David D. Burns

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious. — Malcolm Gladwell

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. — Elizabeth Strout

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain. — Marcus Buckingham

Love is dangerous. Love leaves scars. — Alleece Balts

Physical courage is a great test. — Oriana Fallaci

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny. — Rupert Grint

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down. — Jeff Koons

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. — John Denham